It was named after the Nobel Prize winner Dennis Gabor.
The award included a 160 cm-diameter pure silver medal with a hologram of Dennis Gabor’s portrait, a charter of honor and a monetary prize.
The award aimed at identifying researchers with a similarly successful career path as Dennis Gabor himself.
Because of the high prestige of this award and the broad research area covered, selection of the awardee was extremely competitive, even more so for the non-Hungarian nominees.
[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] A different Dennis Gabor Award is presented each year by SPIE, the International Society for Optics and Photonics,[13] in recognition of outstanding accomplishments in diffractive wavefront technologies, especially those which further the development of holography and metrology applications.