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"Father of Fiber Optics" Wins Nobel Prize
alphadogg writes "Charles Kao, whose work in the 1960s laid the foundation for today's long-distance fiber-optic networks, has won a share of this year's Nobel Prize in Physics (PDF). Kao, sometimes referred to as the 'father of fiber-optic communications,' was formally honored by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden 'for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication.' Kao's breakthrough discovery in 1966 was to determine how to transmit light over long distances using ultrapure optical glass fibers. This would extend the distance of such transmissions to 62 miles vs. the mere 65 feet allowed under previous technology held back by impurities. The first ultrapure fiber was created in 1970."
At least it would have been if I had a fiber optic network.
Because, as we all know, the execs at AT&T and other companies are the ones who determine the receptors of Nobel prizes.
Because, as we all know, the execs at AT&T and other companies are the ones who determine the receptors of Nobel prizes.
I thought it was the Illuminati? Or is it the Freemasons? Maybe the Jews? Or the Scientologists?
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
Transmission through Purity, Purity through Physics!
Seriously. If it wasn't for them, we wouldn't have the glut of amateur porn that's available to us today.
God bless you, sirs.
Yeah, I could also never understand what they were up to with this crazy guy and his photoelectric effect!
I'm pretty sure I heard on Art Bell that fiber optics weren't invented on Earth. They were discovered in the Roswell crash. Kao should return this prize.