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The invention of holography by Gabor was i … The invention of holography by Gabor was in many respects ahead of other work and ideas in the processing of images, and as such was unique.
G. Saxby [10] reports in his 1988 book that there were six and a half thousand papers on holography, of which he judged ‘….. more than a thousand … contain material of importance’.
X-ray holograms were achieved by 1987 at Lawrence Livermore laboratories, and it can be considered that some aspects of synthetic aperture radar systems have concepts in common with holography.
For addit1. Biography of Fellows of Royal Society. Written by T.E. Allibone: doi: 10.1098/rsbm.1980.0004, Biogr. Mems Fell. R. Soc. 1980 26, 106-147
2. “Dennis Gabor – Contributions to Communication Theory & Signal Processing”, by P.C.J. Hill, EUROCON 2007 proceedings.
3. http://www.best-things-in-hungary.com/nobel-prize.html#gabor
4. At IEEE GHN site:
http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Dennis_Gabor
5. Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Gabor
6. Biography (in Hungarian):
http://www.sasovits.hu/anyag/feltalal/gabor_d.htm
7. Wikepedia entry in Hungarian (some added information not in the English language version):
http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A1bor_D%C3%A9nes_(fizikus)
8. Information about some of his inventions, etc. (in Hungarian):
http://www.feltalaloink.hu/tudosok/gabordenes/html/gabdental4.htm
9. R.R.A. Syms ‘Practical Volume Holography’, Oxford Science Publications, Clarendon Press, 1990
10. G. Saxby ‘Practical Holography’, Prentice Hall, 1988.
11 D. Gabor, Inventing the Future, Secker & Warburg, 1963, [and Pelican Books, London, 1964]. , 1963, [and Pelican Books, London, 1964].
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Full demonstration of the invention had to await the emergance of the the laser circa 1960, as processing the phase information required for the holograms depends on the availability of a coherent light source.
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Imperial College, London
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There is a staffed desk at the Exhibition Road entrance of Imperial College, where visitors could ask for admittance or guidance; a walk across an open courtyard to the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Building is required.
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On or in the building of the Department of … On or in the building of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College, Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London, SW7 2AZ, England, UK.
Dennis Gabor moved from the BTH company to the Electrical Engineering Department of Imperial College, University of London, in 1949, where he was appointed Reader in Electronics. He was promoted to Professor of Applied Electron Physics in the same Department in 1958. on Physics in the same Department in 1958.
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| Proposed Milestone IEEE Section
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| Proposed Milestone Location
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Imperial College, London
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1947 - circa 1960 +
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