Charles K. Kao
Charles K. Kao
Sir Charles Kuen Kao, GBM, KBE, FRS, FREngis a Chinese-born Hong Kong, American and British electrical engineer and physicist who pioneered in the development and use of fiber optics in telecommunications. Kao, known as the "Godfather of Broadband", "Father of Fiber Optics" or "Father of Fiber Optic Communications", was jointly awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for "groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication". Kao holds multiple citizenship of Hong Kong, the United Kingdom...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth4 November 1933
CountryUnited States of America
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