Till now man has been up against Nature: from now on he will be up against his own nature.
Dennis Gabor Quotes
The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.
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| Birth: | 5th June, 1900 |
| Death: | 9th February, 1979 |
| Nationality: | British, Hungarian |
| Profession: | Physicist |
About
Dennis Gabor was born in Budapest, Hungary. He was a Hungarian-British physicist, most notable for inventing holography, for which he later received the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics. He eventually wrote his PhD thesis on Recording of Transients in Electric Circuits with the Cathode Ray Oscillograph in 1927, and worked on plasma lamps. In 1948 Gabor moved from Rugby to Imperial College London, and in 1958 became professor of Applied Physics until his retirement in 1967. In 1963 Gabor published Inventing the Future. His next book, Innovations: scientific, technological, and social which was published in 1970.
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