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Dennis Gabor

1900 - 1979

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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dennis Gabor has received more than 468,464 page views. His biography is available in 79 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 76 in 2019). Dennis Gabor is the 102nd most popular physicist (down from 93rd in 2019), the 40th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 32nd 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 102 out of 851. Before him are Aage Bohr, William Rowan Hamilton, George Gamow, Owen Willans Richardson, Edward Victor Appleton, and John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh. After him are François Arago, Willis Lamb, Owen Chamberlain, Roger Penrose, Alfred Kastler, and Jean-Baptiste Biot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Dennis Gabor ranks 17. Before him are Heinrich Müller, Adolf Dassler, Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Vasily Chuikov, Margaret Mitchell, and Spencer Tracy. After him are Sándor Márai, Jacques Prévert, Charles Francis Richter, Urho Kekkonen, Eyvind Johnson, and Hans Fritzsche. Among people deceased in 1979, Dennis Gabor ranks 13. Before him are Nino Rota, Jean Renoir, Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Jean Monnet, Sándor Kocsis, and Mika Waltari. After him are Ludvík Svoboda, Jean Seberg, Mustafa Barzani, Nelson Rockefeller, Sonia Delaunay, and Hafizullah Amin.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Dennis Gabor ranks 40 out of 1,077. Before him are Mary, Queen of Hungary (1371), Johnny Weissmuller (1904), Leo Szilard (1898), László Bíró (1899), Elizabeth of Luxembourg (1409), and Sándor Kocsis (1929). After him are Sándor Márai (1900), Sándor Petőfi (1823), Zoltán Kodály (1882), Ágota Kristóf (1935), Coloman, King of Hungary (1070), and László Kubala (1927).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Hungary

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

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