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Stuart Ballantine Medal (10) |
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| complete name: |
Charles Kuen Kao |
| nobel prize: |
physics |
| award year: |
2009 |
| together with: |
Willard Boyle |
| together with: |
George E. Smith |
| prize share: |
Prize share: 1/4 |
| rational: |
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2009 was divided, one half awarded to Charles Kuen Kao "for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication", the other half jointly to Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith "for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit - the CCD sensor." |
| biography: |
Biography |
| laureate facts: |
Facts |
| laureate lecture: |
Lecture |
| given name: |
Charles |
| family name: |
Kao |
| occupation: |
engineer |
| occupation: |
entrepreneur |
| occupation: |
physicist |
| occupation: |
inventor |
| occupation: |
academic |
| field of work: |
electrical engineering |
| work location: |
Yale University, Woodbridge Hall, New Haven, CT, 06520, United States of America |
| description: |
Charles Kuen Kao 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 multiple citizenship of Hong Kong, the United Kingdom and the United States. |
| image copyright: |
© The Nobel Foundation. Photo: U. Montan |
| image citation: |
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2009. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2009/summary/> |
| date birth: |
1933 |
| date death: |
2018 |
| usual name: |
Charles Kao |
