Dennis (his Hungarian name is Gábor Dénes) was a Hungarian Jewish British electrician born on 5 June 1900. Mr. Gabor invented holography and has won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1971. Google celebrates 110 years since Dennis Gabor was born with a doodle, a holographic image which is replacing the Google logo.
He was born and raised in Budapest, Hungary in a Jewish family. He served the artillery during the World War I and studied at the Technical University of Budapest then moved to Technical University of Berlin, Germany.

Dennis Gabor Google Doodle shown on Google's homepage

Dennis Gabor analyzed the proprieties of high voltage electric transmission lines using cathode beam oscillographs. He later wrote his Ph.D. thesis on cathode ray tube in 1927 and continued working on plasma lamps.
Because he was a Jew he had to leave Germany and moved to England in Warwickshire. In 1947, while working at the British Thomson-Houston he invented holography but the first hologram is known to have been released in 1964 after the laser was invented (1960). Holography allows scattered light to record its image that was reproduced as the object was there when it was recorded. It is used in many 3D animations.
In 1958 Dennis Gabor was honored as professor of applied physics and retired in 1967, moving to Italy where he spent many years of his life. He died in London in 1979, Februari 8th.
It it wasn’t for Dennis Gabor we would not have 3D animations such as Toy Story or The Matrix.

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