Dennis Gabor

Dennis Gabor ( Gábor Dénes actually, German 1920-1934 also Dionys Gabor ) ( born June 5, 1900 in Budapest, † February 8, 1979 in London) was a Hungarian engineer who in 1971 received the Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of holography. He lived from 1920 to 1933 in Germany, after which he emigrated to England, where he later took British citizenship. Dennis Gabor was a founding member of the Club of Rome.

Life

He graduated in engineering in 1920 at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. Further studies at the Technische Hochschule Berlin -Charlottenburg followed from 1921 to 1924. Upon graduation in 1927, he went to the Siemens & Halske AG ( now Siemens AG) in Berlin, where he made his first inventions ( high-pressure mercury vapor lamp). Due to his Jewish origins he was forced to emigrate to England in 1933 as a result of the political developments during the period of National Socialism. He received British citizenship. In England, he worked for British Thomson - Houston.

In 1947 he developed the principle of holography.

Gábor occurred in 1949 in the Imperial College London, where he became in 1958 professor of applied electron physics. Gábor received the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his invention and development of the holographic method".

Dennis Gabor died in London in 1979, he was the owner of over 100 patents.

" For the majority of people work is the only distraction that they can withstand the long term. "

Named after him is the Gabor transform, a locally restricted variant of the Fourier transform. The city of Potsdam named a street after Dennis Gabor.