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Dennis Gabor (/ˈɡɑːbɔːr, ɡəˈbɔːr/ GAH-bor, gə-BOR;[3][4][5][6] Hungarian: Gábor Dénes [ˈɡaːbor ˈdeːnɛʃ]; 5 June 1900 – 9 February 1979) was a Hungarian-British physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1971 for his invention of holography.[7][8][9][10][11][12] He obtained British citizenship in 1946 and spent most of his life in England.[13][14][15] Gabor was born as Günszberg Dénes, into a Jewish family in Budapest, Austria-Hungary. In 1900, his family converted to Lutheranism.[16] Dennis was the first-born son of Günszberg Bernát and Jakobovits Adél. Despite having a religious background, religion played a minor role in his later life and he considered himself agnostic.[17] In 1902, the family received permission to change their surname from Günszberg to Gábor. He served with the Hungarian artillery in northern Italy during World War I.[18] He began his studies in engineering at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics in 1918, later in Germany, at the Technisch

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