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Father of Fiber-Optics Wins Nobel Prize

  • Oct 06, 2009 10:02 AM PDT
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The 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded for "two revolutionary optical technologies."
Charles K. Kao, who discovered how to transmit light through fiber optics, and the team of Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith, who designed the first digital-imaging sensor, split the Nobel Prize, announced by the Nobel Foundation on Tuesday.

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