10 December 2003 09:26
Dennis Gabor Prizes Presented
Budapest, December 10 (MTI) - A Russian and a Hungarian scientist were awarded the 2003 International Dennis Gabor
Prize in Budapest on Wednesday, in keeping with a decision by the board of the Novofer Foundation. Russian scientists
Pavel Aleksandrovich Belov, a researcher of the Helsinki University of Technology, and Adam Gali, an engineer-physicist
and researcher of Nuclear Physics Department of the Budapest University of Technical and Economic Sciences, received the
international prizes. The prize is named after Hungarian born British Nobel Prize winning physicist Dennis Gabor
(1900-1979), who discovered the holograph. Eight Hungarians received the Hungarian Dennis Gabor Prize, for research
achievements in IT, computer technology and biochemistry. Speaking at the awards ceremony, Minister of Education Balint
Magyar and Minister of IT and Telecommunications Kalman Kovacs stressed the major role of innovative developments and
modern IT knowledge in the creation of a Hungarian knowledge-based society.
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