Metadata: Gabor, Professor Dennis (1900-1979)
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- Imperial College Archives and Corporate Records Unit
- Holding institution (official language):
- Imperial College Archives and Corporate Records Unit
- Postal address:
- Room 455Sherfield BuildingImperial College London Greater London United Kingdom SW7 2AZ
- Phone number:
- Telephone: 020 7594 8850
- Email:
- Email: acru@imperial.ac.uk
- Reference number:
- B/Gabor
- Title:
- Gabor, Professor Dennis (1900-1979)
- Title (official language):
- Gabor, Professor Dennis (1900-1979)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Gabor, Dennis, 1900-1979, physicist
- Date(s):
- 1911/1985
- Language:
- English
- French
- German
- Hungarian
- Extent:
- 43 boxes
- Scope and content:
- Papers of Professor Dennis Gabor, 1911-1985, comprising biographical papers, 1961-1985, principally press cuttings, articles, obituaries;early papers and family correspondence, 1911-1975, comprising diary, 1911; papers, including details of classes, examinations, and certificates relating to the Joseph Technical High School, Budapest, 1918-1922, the Berlin Technische Hochschule, Charlottenberg, 1921-1922; personal papers, notably permits, identity cards, certificates; papers relating to employment at British Thomson Houston Company, 1934-1948; correspondence with the Foreign Office, with Andre Gabor, 1945-1969; diplomas, 1943-1974; photographs and posters, 1904-1975, principally of the Gabor family, research apparatus, the 1971 Nobel prize winners;research papers, 1933-1974, including correspondence, reports, drawings, comprising essays, 1936-1946; papers concerning plasma theory, 1933-1955; optical design, 1940-1963; electron microscope, 1943-1957; communication theory, electron optics, statistical physics, 1943-1954; stereoscopy, 1940-1961; diffraction microscopy, 1948-1952; interference microscopy, 1949-1974; information theory, 1951-1965; mathematical theory of freedom, 1951-1962; thermo-nuclear power project and plasma theory, 1958-1966; flat TV tube, 1938-1971; papers and correspondence relating to his books _Inventing the Future_ and _The Mature Society_, 1959-1974; correspondence and papers relating to patents, 1933-1966;papers relating to his work at Imperial College, 1948-1972, including National Research Development Corporation research grants, 1953-1972; appointment as Mullard Reader in electronics, 1948-1967; inaugural lecture, [1959], 1970-1979; correspondence with staff and students, 1949-1973, notably with Rectors, 1949-1973, Willis Jackson, Head of Electrical Engineering, 1960-1968; lecture notes, 1948-1962;correspondence, photographs and papers relating to the Nobel Prize, 1971-1978; papers relating to Samuel Roslington Milner, including memoir, obituary, 1959, correspondence, 1944-1967, notably concerning the publication of Milner's book; papers relating to CBS Laboratories (a division of Columbia Broadcasting System), 1942-1975, comprising correspondence and papers relating to Gabor's consultancy, including correspondence with Peter Carl Goldmark, 1942-1972;general correspondence, 1932-1975, principally concerning research interests, including with Max Born, 1942-1965; Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, 1956-1970; Cecil Reginald Burch, 1952-1975; Sir Charles Galton Darwin, 1944-1952; Morris Leopold Ernst, 1960-1972; Michael Edward Haine, 1943-1968; John Anthony Hardinge Giffard, 1949-1971; Sir Harold Hartley, 1959-1966; Arthur Koestler, 1946-1973; Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls, 1945-1950; Michael Polanyi, 1953-1964; Sir Karl Raimund Popper, 1964-1972; John Boynton Priestley, 1957, 1964; Royal Society, 1958-1974; Sir Henry William Hugh Warren, 1943-1951; list of publications, printed articles and reviews, 1928-1974; tapes and slides, 1964-1972, comprising interviews, lectures, lecture slides.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Dennis Gabor was born Dénes Gábor on 5 June 1900 in Budapest, Hungary, son of Bertalan Bartholomew Gábor, formerly Günsberg (d. 1942), engineer. The family were Jewish, but converted to Lutheranism when Gabor was 18. He studied mechanical engineering at Joseph Technical High School, Budapest, 1918-1921, and Electrical Engineering Department, Technische Hochschule, Berlin, 1921-1924; awarded Diplom-Arbeit, 1924; awarded PhD, 1927; Research associate, German Research Association for High Voltage Plants, 1926-1927; Research engineer, Siemens and Halske AG, Berlin-Siemensstadt, 1927-1933; Research engineer, British Thomson Houston Company, Rugby, 1934-1948; Reader in Electron Physics, Imperial College, 1948-1958; elected Fellow of the Royal Society, 1956; Professor of Applied Electron Physics, Imperial College, 1958-1967; Senior Research Fellow, Imperial College, 1967-1976; Professor Emeritus, Imperial College, 1967-1979; Staff Scientist, CBS Laboratories, Stamford, Connecticut, USA, 1967-1979; CBE, 1970; Nobel prize in Physics, 1971; inventor of holography; died, 1979.Publications: _Electron Optics ... A lecture_ (Reprinted from "Electronic Engineering.") [1943]; _The Electron Microscope_ (Electronic Engineering, London, 1948, second edition); _Electronic Inventions and their Impact on Civilization_ (Inaugural lecture as Professor of Applied Electronic Physics) Imperial College of Science and Technology (London, 1959); _Inventing the Future_ (Secker & Warburg, London, 1963); _The Mature Society_ (London, Secker and Warburg, 1972); _The proper priorities of science and technology_ (Southampton, University of Southampton, 1972); scientific papers on electrical transients, gas discharges, electron dynamics, communication theory and physical optics.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Gabor, Dennis
- Access, restrictions:
- Researchers wishing to consult the Archives should first contact the College Archivist, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2AZ, for an appointment.
- Finding aids:
- A catalogue is available in the reading room of the College Archives.
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25
- Author of the description:
- Sources: Who Was Who (A & C Black, 1981, volume VII ); British Library On-Line Publications Acess Catalogue 97; National Register of Archives. Compiled by Julie Tancell as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.
- Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine