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Charles K. Kao

Nobel Prize-winning physicist known as the father of fibre optics

Did you know?His groundbreaking research paved the way for the high-speed internet and global telecommunications systems used today.

Sir Charles Kuen Kao (November 4, 1933 – September 23, 2018) was a Hong Kong electrical engineer who contributed to the development and use of fibre optics in telecommunications.

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