International Dennis Gabor Award

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• Aydogan Ozcan (UCLA Samueli School of Engineering) was named the 2023 recipient in recognition of his “seminal contributions to holography, lens-free holographic microscopy, and computational imaging” that have helped democratize advanced measurement systems.{{Cite web |title=Aydogan Ozcan: The 2023 SPIE Dennis Gabor Award in Diffractive Optics |url=https://spie.org/news/aydogan-ozcan-the-2023-spie-dennis-gabor-award-in-diffractive-optics |access-date=2025-02-17 |website=spie.org}}

Min Gu (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia) was recognized for his innovative research in nanoscale information optics, particularly in the unification of 3D Fourier optics with nonlinear microscopy to push imaging resolution beyond classical limits.{{Cite web |title=Dennis Gabor Award in Diffractive Optics: Min Gu |url=https://spie.org/news/spie-professional-magazine-archive/2019-july/min-gu-wins-dennis-gabor-award-in-diffractive-optics |access-date=2025-02-17 |website=spie.org}}

• SPIE Fellow Wolfgang Osten (University of Stuttgart, Germany) received the award for his pioneering work in applying holography‐based techniques to measurements spanning large-scale to nano‐scale structures.{{Cite web |title=SPIE Awards |url=https://spie.org/news/spie-professional-magazine-archive/2011-july/spie-awards |access-date=2025-02-17 |website=spie.org}}

• Vladimír Székely, born in Hungary in 1941. He contributed to semiconductor technology.{{cite web | title=Mentor Graphics Dr. Vladimír Székely Receives Dennis Gabor Award | website=Mentor Graphics | date=2015-09-14 | url=https://www.mentor.com/company/news/dr-szekely-receives-dennis-gabor-award-in-hungarian-parliament | access-date=2019-09-10}}
• Mitsuo Takeda (University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan) was honored for his seminal contributions—including the invention of the Fourier transform method for fringe analysis and the development of coherence holography.{{Cite web |title=Mitsuo Takeda honored with Dennis Gabor Award |url=https://spie.org/about-spie/spie-member-news/gabor-2-25-10 |access-date=2025-02-17 |website=spie.org}}

• Chinese-born researcher and US citizen, Warren Chan. Chan contributed to applying nanotechnology in biology and medicine to treat diseases such as cancer. He is also a professor at the University of Toronto, Canada.
• Dombi Péter, physicist, born in Szeged, Hungary in 1976. He contributed to optics, such as ultra-short pulses and high intensity laser technology.

• Nico F. Declercq, physicist, born in Belgium in 1975. He contributed to ultrasonics of biased piezoelectric anisotropic crystals and diffraction of ultrasonic waves by periodic structures and the use of optics for these investigations. He later worked on the acoustics of Chichen Itza and Epidaurus. Furthermore, he is a professor at Georgia Institute of Technology, GA, USA and Georgia Tech Lorraine, Metz, France.
• Czirók András, physicist, born in Miskolc, Hungary in 1973. He works at University of Kansas Medical Center. He contributed to biological systems.

• Pavel Alexandrovich Belov, physicist, born in Saint Petersburg in the Soviet Union in 1977. He contributed to photonic crystals.
• Gali Ádám, engineer and physicist, born in Budapest, Hungary in 1973. He contributed to Atomic Physics, with a focus on point-defects in semiconductors.

• Georg Pretzler, physicist and a professor at the University of Munich, born in Graz, Austria in 1965. He contributed to quantum optics, rontgen-holography and high power laser and is a professor at the Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf.
• Baranyi Péter, electrical engineer, born in Kalocsa, Hungary in 1970. He graduated from Budapest University of Technology and contributed to Telecommunications and Telematics. He also worked at the University of Hong Kong, the University of New South Wales and the University of Tokyo.

• Sándor Kürti was born in Hungary in 1947. He is famous for contributions to mathematics.

• Chris J. Jacobsen, researcher, born in the USA and worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, USA. He contributed to holographic X-ray imaging of soft materials and received a Presidential Faculty Fellowship.
• Szipőcs Róbert, electrical engineer, born in Hungary. He studied at Budapest University of Technology and contributed to chipped mirrors and the production of femtosecond light pulses.

• Ernő Rubik, born in Hungary in 1944 and is known for his invention of Rubik's Cube.

• Kristina M. Johnson, electrical engineer, born in Evansville, USA, in 1957. She was a faculty with the University of Colorado at Boulder at the time of the award. She received her PhD from Stanford University. Later on, she was the undersecretary for Energy at the United States Department of Energy, provost, and senior vice president for academic affairs at Johns Hopkins University and dean of the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University. She contributed to opto-electronic computing and holography.
• Horváth Gábor, physicist, born in Kiskunhalas, Hungary, in 1963. He contributed to physiological and photoreceptor optics, optical problems in biology, and polarization vision in animals.

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