Dennis Gabor

Dennis Gabor was a Hungarian-British electrical engineer and physicist, most notable for inventing holography, for which he later received the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Gabor Denes College in Budapest, Hungary, is named after him in honour of his works.

Date of birth:
5th June, 1900
Date of death:
9th February, 1979
"The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday."
― Dennis Gabor
Topic(s): Technology
"Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them."
― Dennis Gabor
Topic(s): Poetry

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