Dennis Gabor

Dennis Gabor

CBE FRS
Dennis Gabor; CBE FRS
	Gabor, c. 1971
Born	Dénes Günszberg; 5 June 1900; Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary
Died	9 February 1979 (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); 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;

Dennis Gabor CBE FRS (/ˈɡɑːbɔːr, ɡəˈbɔːr/ GAH-bor, gə-BOR; Hungarian: Gábor Dénes, pronounced [ˈɡaːbor ˈdeːnɛʃ]; 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. He obtained British citizenship in 1934, and spent most of his life in England.

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