Yuri Nikolaevich Denisyuk
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Sochi
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– May 14, 2006, Saint Petersburg
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) was a Soviet
Soviet Union
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physicist
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known for his contribution to holography
Holography
Holography is a technique that allows the light scattered from an object to be recorded and later reconstructed so that when an imaging system is placed in the reconstructed beam, an image of the object will be seen even when the object is no longer present...
, in particular for the so-called "Denisyuk hologram".