Today is Dennis Gabors 110th Birthday. He was born in Germany but fled in 1933 when it was taken over by the Nazi Party. He received an invitation from Britain to work in the development department of a British engineering and heavy industrial company, where he invent holography (hologram) in 1947. In 1971 he would receive the Noble Prize for Physics.

Due to the rapid development of lasers and the wide variety of holographic applications (e.g. information storage, recognition of patterns, art) brought acknowledged success and worldwide attention to Gabor. Check It Out Here