The International Dennis Gabor Award (1993-2010) was awarded by the NOVOFER Foundation of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences for scientific achievements with practical applications. It was named after the Nobel Prize winner Dennis Gabor. The award included a 160 cm-diameter pure silver medal with a hologram of Dennis Gabor’s portrait, a charter of honor and a monetary prize. The award was normally awarded simultaneously to a Hungarian and to a non-Hungarian researcher and was not awarded every year but, on average, every 3 years or longer depending on the level of the candidates. The award aimed at identifying researchers with a similarly successful career path as Dennis Gabor himself. Because of the high prestige of this award and the broad research area covered, selection of the awardee was extremely competitive, even more so for the non-Hungarian nominees. The award ceremony took place at the Hungarian Parliament. The international Denis Gabor Award was awarded from 1993 until 2010. Since 2010, the NOVOFER organization has continued to offer awards, but under a different name, such as the ‘’Denis Gabor in Memoriam Award’’, or the ‘’Denis Gabor Lifetime Achievement Award’’. A different ** Dennis Gabor Award** is presented each year by SPIE, the International Society for Optics and Photonics, in recognition of outstanding accomplishments in diffractive wavefront technologies, especially those which further the development of holography and metrology applications.

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