Holography was first discovered in 1947 by British physicist Denise Gabor (1900-1979), for which she won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics. Other physicists also performed pioneering work, such as Mieczyslaw Wolfke, who solved previous technical problems to make optimization possible. This discovery was actually the inadvertent product of a British company in the process of improving electron microscopes (Patent No. GB685286). This technology originally used electron microscopes, so it was originally called "electron hologram". Holograms as an optical field did not begin until the invention of laser technology in 1960.
The first hologram recording a three-dimensional object was taken in the United States in 1962 by Yuri Denisyuk, Emmett Leith, and Juris Upatnieks.
There are many types of holograms, such as projection holograms, reflection holograms, rainbow holograms, etc.