biography
pronunciation:
[gabaw(r)]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1900–79)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Budapest, Hungary. After obtaining a doctorate in engineering in Berlin (1927) he worked as a research engineer, but left Germany in 1933. In 1948 he joined Imperial College, London, and was appointed professor of applied electron physics (1958–67). He is credited with the invention in 1947 of the technique of holography, a method of photographically recording and reproducing three-dimensional images, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1971. |
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