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    Sir Charles Kao Kuen GBM KBE FRS FREng (November 4, 1933 – September 23, 2018) was a Chinese physicist and Nobel laureate who contributed to the development...
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    length of the fiber. The 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Charles K. Kao for his theoretical work on the single-mode optical fiber. The standards...
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  • Literature and Culture: Akira Kurosawa (Japan) Science and Technology: Charles K. Kao (China/UK/USA) Moral and Spiritual Leadership: Mahatma Gandhi (India)...
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  • or Medicine, 2015 Mo Yan, Literature, 2012 Liu Xiaobo, Peace, 2010 Charles K. Kao*, Physics, 2009 Gao Xingjian*, Literature, 2000 Daniel C. Tsui*, Physics...
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    to be supervised by someone with an appropriate security clearance. Charles K. Kao and George A. Hockham of the British company Standard Telephones and...
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  • Hopkins Gardiner Greene Hubbard Internet pioneers Bob Kahn Dawon Kahng Charles K. Kao Narinder Singh Kapany Hedy Lamarr Innocenzo Manzetti Guglielmo Marconi...
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    sciences. Greenwich's alumni include two Nobel laureates: Abiy Ahmed and Charles K. Kao. It received an overall Gold rating in the UK government's Teaching...
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  • Hopkins Gardiner Greene Hubbard Internet pioneers Bob Kahn Dawon Kahng Charles K. Kao Narinder Singh Kapany Hedy Lamarr Innocenzo Manzetti Guglielmo Marconi...
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    contributed to the development of optical fiber communications. In 1966 Charles K. Kao and George Hockham at Standard Telecommunication Laboratories showed...
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    Yang, Tsung-Dao Lee, Yuan T. Lee, Daniel C. Tsui, Roger Y. Tsien and Charles K. Kao (known as the "Godfather of Broadband" and "Father of Fiber Optics");...
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