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Charles K. Kao

Charles K. Kao
Charles K. Kao, Chinese physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2018)

Sir Charles Kao Kuen 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.

4 November 1933

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