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Dennis Gabor

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Dennis Gabor

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Also known as Denis Gabor

Nobel Prize-winning physicist and inventor of holography

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Dennis Gabor was a male person from Germany. He was born in 1900 and died in 1979. His works include *Theory of communication*, *Thoughts on the future*, *The dangers of inertia-planning for adaptability*, *Inventing education for the future*, and *Redundancy or redeployment*.

He was recognized in the Royal Society collection, the American Academy Arts Sciences collection, the Nobel Laureates collection, the Nobel Physics collection, and the National Inventors Hall Of Fame collection. He was referenced by 510 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 22 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Nobel Prize, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
1900
Died
1979
Works
17

Top works

  • Theory of communication
  • Thoughts on the future
  • The dangers of inertia-planning for adaptability
  • Inventing education for the future
  • Redundancy or redeployment

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Germany
Discogs

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools

    · 2009 · cited 59,247x

  2. The ERA5 global reanalysis

    · 2020 · cited 24,208x

  3. The NCEP/NCAR 40-Year Reanalysis Project

    · 1996 · cited 18,867x

  4. A global reference for human genetic variation

    · 2015 · cited 17,787x

  5. The american rheumatism association 1987 revised criteria for the classification of rheumatoid arthritis

    · 1988 · cited 15,809x

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Quotes

  • “The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. It was man's ability to invent which has made human society what it is.”

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physics1971

    “for his invention and development of the holographic method”

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Encyclopedic overview

Dennis Gabor (5 June 1900 – 9 February 1979) was a Hungarian-British physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1971 for his invention of holography. He obtained British citizenship in 1946 and spent most of his life in England.

Life and career

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