Born: 1933-11-04 in Shanghai, China
Gender: male
Field: Chinese scientist and Nobel Prize Laureate (1933–2018)
Sir Charles Kao Kuen was a Chinese physicist and Nobel laureate who contributed to the development and use of fibre optics in telecommunications. In the 1960s, Kao created various methods to combine glass fibres with lasers in order to transmit digital data, which laid the groundwork for the evolution of the Internet and the eventual creation of the World Wide Web.
Awarded on: 2009-10-06
"for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication"
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