Awards & Winners

Charles K. Kao

Date of Birth 04-November-1933
Place of Birth Shanghai
(China)
Nationality China, United Kingdom, United States of America
Also know as Charles K Kao
Profession Scientist, Engineer, Physicist
The Honourable Sir Charles Kuen Kao, GBM, KBE, FRS, FREng is a Chinese-born Hong Kong, American and British electrical engineer and physicist who pioneered in the development and use of fiber optics in telecommunications. Kao, known as the "Godfather of Broadband", "Father of Fiber Optics" or "Father of Fiber Optic Communications", was jointly awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for "groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication". Kao holds dual citizenship of the United Kingdom and the United States.

Awards by Charles K. Kao

Check all the awards nominated and won by Charles K. Kao.

2009


Nobel Prize in Physics
(for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication)