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ABritish electrical engineer, Dr. Dennis Gabor worked as a scientist in the U.S.A. He was born in Budapest, Hungary, on 5 June 1900. He studied electrical engineering in Budapest and completed his Ph.D in engineering from Berlin.  Dr. Gabor won the 1971 Nobel prize award for Physics. He was the 16th Briton to have won the Nobel prize in Physics. He was famous for his 'invention in development of the holographic method', i.e. three-dimensional photography. He later worked as research engineer in Germany. He joined the staff of the Imperial College in London in 1949.
After his retirement in 1967, he continued connected with the Imperial College as a Senior Research Fellow and became Staff Scientist of CBS Laboratories, Stamford, Conn. Holography was his most important invention. Even after coming of the laser in 1960, the science became fully developed. He died on 9 February, 1979.