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In 2025, the 125th anniversary of the birth of the inventor of holography, Nobel Prize-winning physicist-engineer Dénes Gábor Dénes, will be celebrated.
To mark the occasion, the Novofer Foundation and the Agora Science Adventure Center are presenting a joint exhibition on time travel, featuring holograms that are 20-30 years old in technology but still timeless today.
Visitors will be in tactile proximity to an essential slice of Hungarian and universal technological history—this was said at the opening of the exhibition “Past Hologram” on October 29, 2024, at the Agora Science Adventure Centre in Debrecen.
The holographic works gathered worldwide come from the legacy of Dénes Gábor’s former colleague, Professor Pál Greguss. The special exhibition can be visited with a torch in hand.
Dénes Gábor’s work and the holography that led to his Nobel Prize can inspire future generations. At the exhibition’s opening, the Deputy Mayor of Debrecen, István Puskás, stressed that the Agora Science Adventure Centre is a model of cooperation between economic players and educational and cultural institutions in Debrecen. He added that he is confident this exhibition will open a new chapter in the series of events exploring the relationship between innovation, technology and life.
The visitors to the exhibition will get in touch with an essential piece of Hungarian and universal history of technology, the President of the Board of Trustees of the Novofer Foundation, Miklós Bendzsel, emphasized. He said that the exhibition was supported by the National Research, Development and Innovation Office as part of the preparations for the series of events to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the birth of Dénes Gábor, which will be accompanied by an interactive lecture for young people on the work of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist-engineer and inventor of holography.
At the event, Béla Somogyi, CEO of Agóra, said that the cooperation with the Novofer Foundation will further strengthen the institution’s goals, which were set 10 years ago. The exhibition, created in the spirit of scientific education, offers a unique experience, as you can explore holograms with flashlights in your hands, illuminated from different angles and experimenting.
Closely linked to the exhibition, Agora is organising two essential lectures for interested physics teachers and students on Thursday, 14 November 2024. At 14.30, a 45-minute educational programme on the intellectual heritage of Dénes Gábor, including holography, will be presented. This will be followed by a lecture entitled “Optical Research of Hungarian Nobel Laureates” by Péter Dombi, Hungarian physicist, university lecturer, Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and internationally renowned researcher in ultrafast laser physics.
The exhibition is on display in the interactive space of the Agora Science Adventure Centre in Debrecen until December 15th, 2024.
In 2025, the exhibition will be on display in several cities of Hungary.
Source and photo credit: debrecen.hu
