Dennis Gabor - Awards

Awards

• 1956 – Fellow of the Royal Society
• 1964 – Honorary Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• 1964 – D.Sc., University of London
• 1967 – Young Medal and Prize, for distinguished research in the field of optics
• 1967 – Colombus Award of the International Institute for Communications, Genoa
• 1968 – The first Albert A. Michelson Medal from The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia
• 1968 – Rumford Medal of the Royal Society
• 1970 – Honorary Doctorate, University of Southampton
• 1970 – Medal of Honor of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• 1970 – Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
• 1971 – Nobel Prize in Physics, for his invention and development of the holographic method
• 1971 – Honorary Doctorate, Delft University of Technology
• 1972 – Holweck Prize of the Société Française de Physique
• Dennis-Gabor-Straße in Potsdam is named in his honor and is the location of the Potsdamer Centrum für Technologie.
• 2009 – Imperial College London opens Gabor Hall, a hall of residence named in his honor