Dennis Gabor — physics (hologram) with roots in the Russian Empire
Dennis Gabor was a Hungarian-British electrical engineer and physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1971 for his invention of holography. Born in Budapest to a family with Russian connections, he fled Nazi Germany to Britain where he spent his career at Imperial College London.
Tracing the roots — Russia / Hungary
Gabor's family had roots in Russia as well as Hungary — part of the Jewish intellectual community that straddled the Russian Empire and Austria-Hungary. His flight from Nazism to Britain, and his subsequent Nobel Prize-winning work, is the story of Central European Jewish genius transplanted to the Anglo-Saxon world.
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Russia / Hungary. At the time, this region lay within the Russian Empire, which spanned from Poland to the Pacific.
A career defined by ambition
"The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented."