Dennis Gabor
Dennis Gabor won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1971.
The Google doodle has marked the 110th anniversary of the birth of Dennis Gabor, the Nobel Prize winner who invented holography.
The Hungarian-born electrical engineer won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1971 for the invention - a system of lensless, three-dimensional photography that has many applications.
He moved from Hungary to Germany as a young man and from 1927 was a research engineer for the firm of Siemens and Halske in Berlin.
Iran closes office of Nobel Prize winner's human rights groupIn 1933 Gabor - who was Jewish - fled Nazi Germany for Britain.
He worked with the Thomson-Houston Company in England, later becoming a British citizen.
In 1947 he conceived the idea of holography and, by employing conventional filtered-light sources, developed the basic technique.
In 1949 Gabor joined the faculty of London's Imperial College of Science and Technology. In 1958 he became professor of applied electron physics.
His other work included research on high-speed oscilloscopes, communication theory, physical optics, and television. Gabor was awarded more than 100 patents.
He died in London on 8 February 1979, aged 78. Telegraph
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