About
British physicist and nobel laureate who invented holography - three dimensional representation of images - in the 1950s. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1971.
Before Fame
He started out his work in Germany, but fled the Nazi regime and worked the rest of his life in England.
Trivia
It took ten years until technology allowed his holograms to be practical, and another ten years for his work to be awarded the Nobel Prize.
Family Life
He was born into a Jewish family that changed their name from Gunszberg to Gaborin 1902.
Associated With
He was a high school classmate of Laszlo Biro, inventor of the ballpoint pen.
