{"id":1421,"date":"2010-06-09T09:06:53","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T08:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www2.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/?p=1421"},"modified":"2023-09-22T13:58:19","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T12:58:19","slug":"nobel-laureates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/nobel-laureates\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobel Laureates"},"content":{"rendered":"

One area where the archives are sadly lacking in both audio and videos recordings is on the subject of Imperial\u2019s Nobel Laureates. And, as always, my appeal is to anyone who may have something to boost our collection, in either audio\/video\/film and so one. This current entry will focus on those Nobel Prize winners for whom we have recordings.<\/p>\n

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Professor Dennis Gabor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In 1948 Dennis Gabor (1900-1979) joined Imperial College as Reader in Electron Physics, he was appointed FRS in 1956 and Professor of Applied Electron Physics in 1958, retiring from the Chair to become Professor Emeritus and Research Fellow in 1967. His experiments on holography began in the 1940\u2019s and on the flat television tube in the 1950\u2019s. The model for his flat TV tube is held by the college archives. I met him only once when he was in our TV Studio to watch a film. On leaving, he spoke to me about the Sony colour TV we had. He said “Ah you have a Sony colour television” to which my reply was along the lines that the Japanese were very clever with their technology. He put his hand on my shoulder and told me that the principle of its workings (the TV\u2019s single electron gun cathode ray tube) was something that he had proposed and suggested, but for which funding could not be found at that time and that the idea went to Japan and was used in those Sony televisions.<\/p>\n