Dennis Gábor
Dennis Gábor (actually Gábor Dénes , German 1920-1934 also Dionys Gabor ) (born June 5, 1900 in Budapest , † February 8, 1979 in London ) was a Hungarian engineer who received the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of holography . He lived in Germany from 1920 to 1933, after which he emigrated to England, where he later took on British citizenship. Dennis Gábor was a founding member of the Club of Rome .
Life
He graduated in engineering from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics in 1920 . Further studies at the Technical University of Berlin-Charlottenburg followed from 1921 to 1924, where he developed the idea of a cyclotron . After receiving his doctorate in 1927, he went to Siemens & Halske AG (today Siemens AG) in Berlin , where he made his first inventions (high-pressure mercury vapor lamp ). Because of his Jewish origins, he had to emigrate to England in 1933 as a result of the political developments during the Nazi era . He received British citizenship . In England he worked for British Thomson-Houston .
In 1947 he developed the principle of holography .
Gábor entered the Imperial College London in 1949 , where he became professor of applied electron physics in 1958. In 1971 Gábor received the Nobel Prize in Physics “for his invention and development of the holographic method”.
Dennis Gábor died in London in 1979, he was the owner of over 100 patents.
"For the majority of people, work is the only distraction they can endure in the long run."
The Gabor transformation , a locally restricted variant of the Fourier transformation , is also named after him . The city of Potsdam named a street after Dennis Gabor.
In 1967 he received the Young Medal . In 1972 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , in 1973 to the National Academy of Sciences .
In 2007 an asteroid was named after him: (72071) Gábor .
Fonts
- Dionys Gábor: Oscillographing of traveling waves with the cathode oscilloscope . Verlag der Vereinigung der Elektrizitätswerke, Berlin 1927.
- Dennis Gábor, Eduard Pestel : The end of waste. On the material situation of mankind, a factual report to the Club of Rome (= rororo non-fiction book . Volume 7164 ). Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1978, ISBN 3-499-17164-3 (English: Beyond the Age of Waste . Translated by Hans Dieter Heck).
- Dennis Gabor: Holographie 1973. Lecture given at the mentors' evening of the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation in Munich-Nymphenburg on June 15, 1973 . Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation, Munich ([1974]).
- Dennis Gabor: The sensible person. Concept for our self-actualization . Scherz, Bern / Munich / Vienna 1972 (English: The mature society . Translated by Wolfram Viertel).
- Dennis Gabor: Mankind tomorrow . Scherz, Bern / Munich / Vienna 1965 (English: Inventing the future . Translated by Alfred P. Zeller).
Web links
- Literature by and about Dennis Gábor in the catalog of the German National Library
- Information from the Nobel Foundation on the 1971 award to Dennis Gábor (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Siemens-History Personalities Scientists . Siemens.com; Retrieved June 5, 2010.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gábor, Dennis |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gábor, Dénes (real name); Gabor, Dionys (used in Germany) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 5, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Budapest |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 8, 1979 |
| Place of death | London |