Dennis Gabor is celebrated today with a Google doodle on his 110th birthday.
Heres all you need to know about the man who invented the hologram
1. Gabor Denes was born into a Jewish family in Budapest, Hungary, on 5 June 1900.
2. He served in the Hungarian artillery in the First World War.
3. He studied at universities in Budapest and Berlin, eventually writing his PhD thesis on the cathode ray tube.
4. He fled Nazi Germany in 1933 and was invited to work in the development department of engineering company British Thomson-Houston.
5. While working at the company in Rugby, Warwickshire, he met his wife, Marjorie Butler. They married in 1936 and he became a British citizen 10 years later.
6. He invented holography in 1947 but the first hologram was not produced until 1964, after the invention of the laser.
7. In 1948 Gabor moved to Imperial College London, and was Professor of Applied Physics at the university from 1958 until his retirement in 1967. One of the Colleges new halls of residence is named Gabor Hall in his honour.
8. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1971 for his invention and development of the holographic method.
9. Gabor spent much of his retirement in Italy, but continued to work with Imperial College as a Senior Research Fellow and was also Staff Scientist for CBS Laboratories the scientific development arm of the US broadcaster CBS in Stamford, Connecticut.
10. He died on 9 February 1979 in London.