Google Doodle Logo: 110th Birthday Tribute to Dennis Gabor, Nobel Prize Winner & Inventor of Holography « Frugal Café Blog Zone

Google Doodle Logo: 110th Birthday Tribute to Dennis Gabor, Nobel Prize Winner & Inventor of Holography

Posted By on June 5, 2010

Today’s unusual, beautiful Google doodle logo on the search engine’s home page baffled me — an ice cube?

Nope, it’s a holographic image — a birthday tribute to Nobel Prize winner Dennis Gabor, the Jewish Hungarian-born electrical engineer who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1971 for his invention of holography. Holography is the science of producing holograms, an advanced form of photography that allows an image to be recorded in three dimensions. Today, June 5, would have been Gabor’s 110th birthday.

Hungarian-born electrical engineer who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1971 for his invention of holography

Bio on Gabor from Nobel Winners:

Hungarian-born electrical engineer who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1971 for his invention of holography, a system of lensless, three-dimensional photography that has many applications.

A research engineer for the firm of Siemens and Halske in Berlin from 1927, Gabor fled Nazi Germany in 1933 and worked with the Thomson-Houston Company in England, later becoming a British subject. In 1947 he conceived the idea of holography and, by employing conventional filtered-light sources, developed the basic technique. Because conventional light sources generally provided either too little light or light that was too diffuse, holography did not become commercially feasible until the demonstration, in 1960, of the laser, which amplifies the intensity of light waves.

From Jewish Virtual Library:

Dennis Gabor was born in Budapest, Hungary on June 5, 1900. Gabor was educated at Budapest and Berlin. He received his diploma at the Technische Hochschule Berlin in 1924, and Dr.-Ing. in 1927. After graduation, Gabor joined the Siemens & Halske AG. Having fled from Nazi Germany in 1933, Gabor was invited to England to work at the development department of the British Thomson-Houston company in Rugby, Warwickshire.

In 1947, whilst working there he invented holography, an achievement for which he later received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1971. Holography is the science of producing holograms, an advanced form of photography that allows an image to be recorded in three dimensions. Holography however did not become commercially available until the introduction of the “laser” in 1960. Gabor also researched how human beings communicate and hear; the result of his investigations was the theory of granular synthesis, although Greek composer Iannis Xenakis claims, that he was actually the first inventor of this synthesis technique (Xenakis, Formalized Music, preface xiii).

In 1948, Gabor moved from Rugby to the Imperial College in London and, in 1958, became professor of Applied Physics until his retirement in 1967.

In addition to being awarded the Nobel Prize, Gabor became a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1956, and an Honorary Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1964.

Gabor died in London on February 9, 1979.

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