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Juris Upatnieks

Latvian-American physicist and inventor (born 1936), one of the inventors of the hologram

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born: 1936
died: 2026
age at death: 90
known for: physicist, inventor, holographer

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who juris upatnieks is

Juris Upatnieks was a Latvian-American physicist and inventor, and pioneer in the field of holography. He was nominated for the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics alongside Emmett Leith but did not win.

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