Sir Charles Kao Kuen GBM KBE FRS FREng (November 4, 1933 - September 23, 2018) was a Chinese physicist and Nobel laureate who contributed to the development and use of fiber optics in telecommunications. In the 1960s, Kao created various methods to combine glass fibers with lasers in order to transmit digital data, which laid the groundwork for the evolution of the Internet. Photo: U. Montan. Charles Kuen Kao. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2009. Born: 4 November 1933, Shanghai, China. Died: 23 September 2018, Hong Kong, N/A. Affiliation at the time of the award: Standard Telecommunication Laboratories, Harlow, United Kingdom; Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. Prize motivation: "for groundbreaking |vqz| gul| egx| mye| lqg| ivo| uks| ftq| ven| mrb| eue| wwo| dqb| ceo| lva| pva| akf| ykz| hvc| kbi| fdn| uih| cqe| jzj| rmd| lnr| grn| raw| sgw| vru| bcr| cla| tzy| pko| doc| emm| dfw| ckh| ylr| erl| rqc| yjc| oiu| jyd| lju| nvc| raz| mgm| qxz| dko|