Dennis Gabor

Hi after long time i am back with ONE person "Dennis Gabor" because today his 110 birthday.
he was electrical engineer and inventor, most notable for inventing holography, for which he later received the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics. yeh Nobel prize that's why he attract me so here he is at my BLOG.

Dennis Gabor (original Hungarian name: Gábor Dénes) CBE, FRS, (5 June 1900, Budapest – 9 February 1979, London) was a British-Hungarian electrical engineer and inventor, most notable for inventing holography, for which he later received the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Awards

• 1956 - Fellow of the Royal Society
• 1964 - Honorary Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• 1964 - D.Sc., University of London
• 1967 - Young Medal and Prize, for distinguished research in the field of optics
• 1967 - Colombus Award of the International Institute for Communications, Genoa
• 1968 - Albert Michelson Medal of The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia
• 1968 - Rumford Medal of the Royal Society
• 1970 - Honorary Doctorate, University of Southampton
• 1970 - Medal of Honor of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• 1970 - Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
• 1971 - Nobel Prize in Physics, for his invention and development of the holographic method
• 1971 - Honorary Doctorate, Delft University of Technology
• 1971 - Prix Holweck of the Société Française de Physique
• Dennis-Gabor Strasse in Potsdam is named in his honor and is the location of the Potsdamer Centrum für Technologie.
• 2009 - Imperial College London opens Gabor Hall, a hall of residence named in his honor

Now a question is what is "Holography"?

Holography (from the Greek, ὅλος hólos whole + γραφή grafē writing, drawing) is a technique that allows the light scattered from an object to be recorded and later reconstructed so that it appears as if the object is in the same position relative to the recording medium as it was when recorded. The image changes as the position and orientation of the viewing system changes in exactly the same way as if the object were still present, thus making the recorded image (hologram) appear three dimensional.

The technique of holography can also be used to optically store, retrieve, and process information. While holography is commonly used to display static 3-D pictures, it is not yet possible to generate arbitrary scenes by a holographic volumetric display.

for more detail: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Gabor
And http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holography

That is all for today, will back soon with another "ONE" until then take care.