Gabor, << GAHB awr, >> Dennis (1900-1979), a Hungarian-born engineer, invented holography, a method of making three-dimensional photographs. He won the 1971 Nobel Prize in physics for his invention. See Holography .
Gabor was born on June 5, 1900, in Budapest. His father inspired him with stories about Thomas A. Edison and other inventors. Gabor graduated from the Technical College in Berlin in 1924 and earned a doctor’s degree in electrical engineering there in 1927. Gabor left Germany in 1933, after the Nazis rose to power. He arrived in England in 1934 and became a British subject in 1946. Gabor received more than 100 patents for inventions. He wrote The Mature Society (1972). He died on Feb. 8, 1979.
