"The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. It was man's ability to invent which has made human society what it is."
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Dennis Gabor
1958 – 1967
Dennis Gabor FRS (June 5, 1900, Budapest – February 9, 1979, London) was a Hungarian-born British physicist and inventor at Imperial College London (1958–1967), most notable for inventing holography in 1949, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1971.
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