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Dennis Gabor

1900 - 1979

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Dennis Gabor ( GAH-bor, gə-BOR; Hungarian: Gábor Dénes [ˈɡaːbor ˈdeːnɛʃ]; 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Dennis Gabor is the 108th most popular physicist (down from 102nd in 2019), the 32nd most popular biography from Hungary (up from 40th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Hungarian Physicist.

Dennis Gabor was a Hungarian physicist and engineer who is most famous for inventing holography.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Dennis Gabor ranks 108 out of 851. Before him are Aage Bohr, Thomas Young, Peter Debye, Mikhail Lomonosov, Georges Lemaître, and Hannes Alfvén. After him are Clinton Davisson, Wilhelm Eduard Weber, Peter Higgs, Ernest Lawrence, Jagadish Chandra Bose, and Heinrich Rohrer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Dennis Gabor ranks 16. Before him are Wolfgang Pauli, Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Hans Frank, and Gladwyn Jebb. After him are Spencer Tracy, Heinrich Müller, Eyvind Johnson, Giorgos Seferis, Adlai Stevenson II, and Margaret Mitchell. Among people deceased in 1979, Dennis Gabor ranks 9. Before him are Mary Pickford, Park Chung-hee, Giuseppe Meazza, John Wayne, Ernst Chain, and Nino Rota. After him are Herbert Marcuse, Jean Renoir, Jean Monnet, Sándor Kocsis, Talcott Parsons, and Nadia Boulanger.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Dennis Gabor ranks 32 out of 1,077. Before him are Jadwiga of Poland (1374), Anne of Bohemia and Hungary (1503), Ilona Staller (1951), Eugene Wigner (1902), Count of St. Germain (1712), and György Lukács (1885). After him are Ladislaus the Posthumous (1440), Andrew II of Hungary (1175), Viktor Orbán (1963), Ernő Rubik (1944), Mary, Queen of Hungary (1371), and Victor Vasarely (1906).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Hungary

Among physicists born in Hungary, Dennis Gabor ranks 4. Before him are Leo Szilard (1898), Edward Teller (1908), and Eugene Wigner (1902). After him are Georg von Békésy (1899), Arpad Elo (1903), Ferenc Krausz (1962), Nicholas Kurti (1908), Zoltán Lajos Bay (1900), Valentine Telegdi (1922), and Egon Orowan (1902).

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