The NOVOFER Foundation for Technical and Intellectual Creation functions under the auspices of the

Hungarian Academy of Sciences The Hungarian Academy of Sciences ( , MTA) is Hungary’s foremost and most prestigious learned society. Its headquarters are located along the banks of the Danube in Budapest, between Széchenyi rakpart and Akadémia utca. The Academy's primar ...

, the Ministry of Education, and the Ministry of Informatics and Communications. Among other activities, it awards the

International Dennis Gabor Award The International Dennis Gabor Award (1993–2010) was established by the NOVOFER Foundation of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences to recognize scientific achievements with practical applications. It was named after Nobel Prize laureate Dennis Ga ...

for outstanding scientific achievements with practical applications, with the emphasis of international cooperation of the researchers. It is named after the

Nobel Prize The Nobel Prizes ( ; ; ) are awards administered by the Nobel Foundation and granted in accordance with the principle of "for the greatest benefit to humankind". The prizes were first awarded in 1901, marking the fifth anniversary of Alfred N ...

winner

Dennis Gabor Dennis Gabor ( ; ; 5 June 1900 – 9 February 1979) was a Hungarian-British physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1971 for his invention of holography. He obtained British citizenship in 1946 and spent most of his life in Engla ...

. The award includes a 130 mm-diameter pure silver medal with a hologram of Dennis Gabor's portrait, a charter of honour, and a monetary prize.

References

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