Hungarian-British electrical engineer and physicist (1900–1979)
The native form of this personal name is Gábor Dénes. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
Dennis Gabor
CBE FRS
Gabor, c. 1971
Born
Dénes Günszberg
(1900-06-05)5 June 1900
Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary
Died
9 February 1979(1979-02-09) (aged 78)
London, England
Citizenship
Hungary
U.K.
Alma mater
Technical University of Berlin
Technical University of Budapest
Known for
Holography
Gabor filter
Gabor limit
Gabor transform
Gabor atom
Gabor wavelet
Spouse
Marjorie Louise Butler
(m. 1936)
(1911–1981)
Awards
FRS (1956)[1]
Young Medal and Prize (1967)
Rumford Medal (1968)
IEEE Medal of Honor (1970)
Nobel Prize in Physics (1971)
Scientific career
Fields
Electrical engineering
Physics
Institutions
Imperial College London
British Thomson-Houston
Doctoral students
Anthony G. Constantinides
Eric Ash[2]
Dennis GaborCBE FRS[1] (/ˈɡɑːbɔːr,ɡəˈbɔːr/GAH-bor, gə-BOR;[3][4][5][6] Hungarian: Gábor Dénes, pronounced[ˈɡaːborˈdeːnɛʃ]; 5 June 1900 – 9 February 1979) was a Hungarian-British electrical engineer and physicist who invented holography, for which he received the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics.[7][8][9][10][11][12] He obtained British citizenship in 1934, and spent most of his life in England.[13][14]
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^Ash, Eric A. (1979). "Dennis Gabor, 1900–1979". Nature. 280 (5721): 431–433. Bibcode:1979Natur.280..431A. doi:10.1038/280431a0. PMID 379651.
^Gabor, Dennis (1944). The electron microscope : Its development, present performance and future possibilities. London. [ISBN missing]
^Gabor, Dennis (1963). Inventing the Future. London : Secker & Warburg. [ISBN missing]
^Gabor, Dennis (1970). Innovations: Scientific, Technological, and Social. London : Oxford University Press. [ISBN missing]
^Gabor, Dennis (1972). The Mature Society. A View of the Future. London : Secker & Warburg. [ISBN missing]
^Gabor, Dennis; and Colombo, Umberto (1978). Beyond the Age of Waste: A Report to the Club of Rome. Oxford : Pergamon Press. [ISBN missing]
^"GÁBOR DÉNES". sztnh.gov.hu (in Hungarian). Szellemi Tulajdon Nemzeti Hivatala. 25 April 2016. Retrieved 19 July 2021.
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DennisGabor University (DGU) (Hungarian: Gábor Dénes Egyetem, GDE) is a private educational institution in Budapest, Hungary. It was established in 1992...
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Gabor wavelets are wavelets invented by DennisGabor using complex functions constructed to serve as a basis for Fourier transforms in information theory...
name, such as the ‘’Denis Gabor in Memoriam Award’’, or the ‘’Denis Gabor Lifetime Achievement Award’’. A different DennisGabor Award is presented each...
In applied mathematics, Gabor atoms, or Gabor functions, are functions used in the analysis proposed by DennisGabor in 1946 in which a family of functions...
physicist DennisGabor invented holography in 1948 while he was looking for a way to improve image resolution in electron microscopes. Gabor's work was...
The DennisGabor Medal and Prize (previously the Duddell Medal and Prize until 2008) is a prize awarded biannually by the Institute of Physics for distinguished...
(since 2012) Chandra S. Vikram Award in Optical Metrology (since 2009) DennisGabor Award in Diffractive Optics (since 1983) Diversity Outreach Award (since...
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γραφή (graphē; "writing" or "drawing"). Hungarian-British physicist DennisGabor received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1971 "for his invention and development...
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