Charles K. Kao
Physicist, Academic
1933 –
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Who is Charles K. Kao?
The Honourable Sir Charles Kuen Kao, GBM, KBE, FRS, FREng is 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 dual citizenship of the United Kingdom and the United States.
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- Born
- Nov 4, 1933
Shanghai - Also known as
- Charles K Kao
- Parents
- Spouses
- May-Wan Kao
(1959 - )
- May-Wan Kao
- Ethnicity
- British Chinese
- Nationality
- China
- United Kingdom
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of London
- Imperial College London
- St. Joseph's College, Hong Kong
- University of Greenwich
- University College London
- Employment
- Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Lived in
- Shanghai
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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