Dennis Gabor CBE FRS (/ ˈ ɡ ɑː b ɔːr, ɡ ə ˈ b ɔːr / GAH -bor, gə- BOR ; Hungarian : Gábor Dénes, pronounced [ˈɡaːbor ˈdeːnɛʃ] ; 5 June 1900 – 9 February 1979) was a Hungarian-British electrical engineer and physicist who invented holography, for which he received the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics. He obtained British citizenship in 1934 and spent most of his life in England.