Holography is part of our everyday lives-from a commemorative 3-D Elvis on the cover of TV Guide to the tiny images designed to discourage credit card counterfeiters. Advances such as holographic video (see "Holograms in Motion," TR November 2002) suggest that it will also be a compelling part of our future. All these technologies have their origin in a serendipitous discovery by Dennis Gabor, a Hungarian scientist who was trying to make an improvement to the electron microscope.

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