Professor DENNIS GABOR,cBE.FRS - Imperial College London

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1955-56
1965
1956
1957
Mathematical theory of freedom
5 April 1951-
4 February 1955
28 March 1951-
Technical report and letter from Paul Bolgiano,
University of Delaware; letter from Hieya Gamo,
IBM. 3 items.
Optical transmission theory. Light and information:
introductory talk on the Symposium on
astronomical optics, Manchester 19 April 1955;
paper on optical transmission July 1955; letter
from Max Born, 19 August 1955. File.
Light and information. Lecture, 1965. Notes in
English and German: information capacity of photographic
plates: maximum utilisation of light
information with photographic plates and the like.
File.
Learning filters. Copy of paper, 14 August 1956;
drawings; four photographs of apparatus.
Theory of electron interference experiments.
Draft notes on the information value of photons;
notes on the Born approximation for time dependent
disturbances etc; correspondence with L Marton.
File.
Electron interferometry experiments. Manuscripts.
Paper on requirements for interferometry by G D
Kahl and F D Bennett with D G's comments; covering
letter fromE U Condon; letter from F D Bennett.
5 items. _
Correspondence with A Gabor re theory of freedom.
Discussion of joint research, drafts, mailing
lists, typescript of paper read to the Royal
Statistical Society, 16 December 1953. Personal
and family news; some letters in Hungarian. File.
Drafts 'Theory of freedom' 1951-1952. Notes,
copies of drafts, comments. Copy of one letter in
Hungarian from 'Olel' to Andre Gabor. File.
29 July 1952- Final draft of 'Mathematical theory of freedom'
10 February 1954 1953. Comments by Stanley James, drafts, notes on
discussion at Royal Statistical Society meeting.
File.
2 February
1952-53
8 December
1953
Correspondence re: 'Theory of freedom'.
Correspondence with Michael Polanyi; letters from
Sir Charles Darwin, H L Mackenzie, Benoit
Mandelbrot and others; postcard from L de Broglie;
copy of drawing of 'Optical file', first sketch,
28 September 1951. File.
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