Fiber Optics Founder Awarded Nobel Prize
October 14, 2009
Last week the Nobel Committee handed out a variety of their coveted Nobel Prizes, including one in physics. This year the prize and money was split between three scientists who made amazing discoveries in the 1960s that paved the way for the telecommunications infrastructure we have today. One of the scientists was , who was a pioneer in the field of fiber optic cabling.
Kao worked on the design for wires that were composed of glass fibers, allowing information to travel quicker and more efficiently. Although we may not realize it, fiber optics is all around us and plays a huge role in the technology we use in our daily lives. There is enough fiber optic cable on Earth to wrap around the planet 25,000 times.
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