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Patrick Pittman | Writer, broadcaster, developer, other stuff. Holography Two photographs of a single hologram taken from different viewpoints The holographic recording itself is not an image; it consists of an apparently random structure of either varying intensity, density or profile. Overview and history[edit] The Hungarian-British physicist Dennis Gabor (in Hungarian: Gábor Dénes),[1][2] was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1971 "for his invention and development of the holographic method".[3] His work, done in the late 1940s, built on pioneering work in the field of X-ray microscopy by other scientists including Mieczysław Wolfke in 1920 and WL Bragg in 1939.[4] The discovery was an unexpected result of research into improving electron microscopes at the British Thomson-Houston (BTH) Company in Rugby, England, and the company filed a patent in December 1947 (patent GB685286). Several types of holograms can be made. Holograms can also be used to store, retrieve, and process information optically.[18] How holography works[edit] Recording a hologram