Dennis Gabor was a Hungarian-British physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1971 for his invention of holography. He obtained British citizenship in 1946 and spent most of his life in England. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1971, announced November 2, 1971. Dennis Gabor, “for his invention and development of the holographic method”. Dennis Gabor: born 1900, Budapest, Hungary. Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).