The International Dennis Gabor Award is awarded by the NOVOFER Foundation

NOVOFER Foundation

The NOVOFER Foundation for Technical and Intellectual Creation functions under the auspices of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the Ministry of Education, and theMinistry of Informatics and Communications....

 of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Hungarian Academy of Sciences

The Hungarian Academy of Sciences is the most important and prestigious learned society of Hungary. Its seat is at the bank of the Danube in Budapest.-History:...

 for outstanding scientific achievements with practical applications, with a clear positive attitude towards international cooperation of the researchers. It is named after the Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...

 winner Dennis Gabor

Dennis Gabor

Dennis Gabor CBE, FRS was a Hungarian-British electrical engineer and inventor, most notable for inventing holography, for which he later received the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics....

. The award includes a 130 mm-diameter pure silver medal with a hologram of Dennis Gabor’s portrait, a charter of honor, and a monetary prize. The award is normally awarded simultaneously to a Hungarian and to a non-Hungarian researcher. The award is an honor to Dennis Gabor

Dennis Gabor

Dennis Gabor CBE, FRS was a Hungarian-British electrical engineer and inventor, most notable for inventing holography, for which he later received the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics....

 and aims at identifying researchers with a likewise successful early career path as Dennis Gabor

Dennis Gabor

Dennis Gabor CBE, FRS was a Hungarian-British electrical engineer and inventor, most notable for inventing holography, for which he later received the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics....

 himself. Because of the high prestige of this award and the broad research area covered, selection of the awardee is extremely competitive, even more so for the non-Hungarian nominees. The award ceremony takes place at the Hungarian Parliament.

2010

• Vladimír Székely
  Vladimír Székely
  Dr. Vladimír Székely is a Hungarian physicist, professor at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics and a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences .He is also a manager with the Mentor Graphics Microelectronics Research and Development group.In April 2010, he won...
  
  , born in Hungary in 1941 and famous for contributions to semiconductor technology.

2009

• Warren Chan, born in China in 1974 but US citizen. Famous for application of nanotechnology in biology and medicine for the treatment of diseases such as cancer. Professor at University of Toronto, Canada.
• Dombi Péter, born in Hungary in 1976

2006

• Nico F. Declercq
  Nico F. Declercq
  Nico F. Declercq is a Physicist and Mechanical Engineer. He is a Professor with the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Ga and Georgia Tech Lorraine in France...
  
  , born in Belgium in 1975. Famous for ultrasonics of biased piezoelectric anisotropic crystals and diffraction of ultrasonic waves by periodic structures and the use of optics for these investigations. He later became well known for work on the acoustics of Chichen Itza
  Chichen Itza
  Chichen Itza is a large pre-Columbian archaeological site built by the Maya civilization located in the northern center of the Yucatán Peninsula, in the Municipality of Tinúm, Yucatán state, present-day Mexico....
  
   and Epidaurus
  Epidaurus
  Epidaurus was a small city in ancient Greece, at the Saronic Gulf. Two modern towns bear the name Epidavros : Palaia Epidavros and Nea Epidavros. Since 2010 they belong to the new municipality of Epidavros, part of the peripheral unit of Argolis...
  
  . Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology, GA, USA and Georgia Tech Lorraine, Metz, France.
• Czirók András, born in Hungary in 1973

2003

• Pavel Alexandrovich Belov, born in Russia in 1967. Famous for his work on photonic crystals.
• Gali Ádám, born in Hungary in 1973

2000

• Georg Pretzler, born in Austria in 1965. Famous for developments quantum optics, rontgen-holography and high power laser. Professor at University of Munich.
• Baranyi Péter, born in Hungary in 1970

1996

• Chris J. Jacobsen, born in USA. Famous for holographic X-ray imaging of soft materials.
• Szipőcs Róbert, born in Hungary

1993

• Kristina M. Johnson
  Kristina M. Johnson
  Kristina M. Johnson was the undersecretary for Energy at the United States Department of Energy until she stepped down Nov. 5, 2010. She has previously been the provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Johns Hopkins University since September 1, 2007. Previously, she had been the...
  
  , born in the USA. She was a faculty with The University of Colorado at the time of the award. She received her PhD from Stanford University. Later she has been 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 is well known for contributions in opto-elecronic computing.
• Horváth Gábor, born in Hungary