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Dennis Gabor
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Nobel Prize-winning physicist and inventor of holography
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Dennis Gabor was born on June 5, 1900, and died on February 9, 1979. He was recognized in the Royal Society collection, the Nobel Laureates collection, the Nobel Physics collection, the National Inventors Hall Of Fame collection, and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.
Gabor received one Nobel Prize. He held an Erdős number of 5.
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Physics1971
“for his invention and development of the holographic method”
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Part of
- The Martians
- Given name
- Dennis
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Budapest
- Place of death
- London
- Educated at
- Technische Universität Berlin
- Employer
- Imperial College London
- Languages spoken
- Hungarian
- Native language
- Hungarian
- Religion
- Lutheranism
- Field of work
- physics
- Conflict
- World War I
- Image
- Dennis Gabor 1971.jpg
- Work location
- Berlin
- Residence
- Hungary
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- member of
- National Academy of Sciences
- Commons category
- Dennis Gabor
- date of birth
- 1900-06-05
- date of death
- 1979-02-08
- Erdős number
- 5
- student
- Eric Ash
- name in native language
- Dennis Gabor
- P8168
- Presidente Lucena
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- place of burial
- Putney Vale Cemetery
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- writing language
- Italian
- interested in
- physics
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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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