Google likes to commemorate important dates and events. The recent examples were of Pac Man and Antonio Vivaldi. The Google logo today is dedicated to the scientist, Dennis Gabor, electrical engineer, is part of a series of Doodles that Google usually dedicates to remind everyone of the significance of some events.
Today marks the 110th birth anniversary of Dennis Gabor. Google displays a “doodle” type holographic. He was a physicist who became famous by his invention of holography.
Born in Budapest on June 5 1900, he was a British scientist and inventor of Hungarian origin. His invention of holography has earned him the prize Holweck in 1970. He had won in 1971 the Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing in 1947, holography, and a method for producing three-dimensional photographic images without using lenses.
He also became famous by the invention of the mercury lamp and high pressure seals molybdenum, later used ubiquitously for lighting streets.
Dennis Gabor began to work as an engineer for industrial research in Germany, but in 1933, when the Nazis came to power, he went to Britain. Beginning in 1949 ‘to teach at the Imperial College of Science Technology in London and there he became professor of physical electronics in 1958.
In 1968 he was awarded a position as researcher for CBS Laboratories Stamford, Connecticut USA.
His works have inspired Christopher Tyler with the development of a stereogram developed using an Apple computer. Google pays homage to the famous physicist with his doodle.