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Published Oct 06 2009 by Technology Review

Nobel for Revolutionary Optical Technologies

The 2009 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to three researchers whose work has formed the basis of modern telecommunications and digital imaging. The prize recognizes Charles K. Kao, whose discoveries led to a breakthrough in fiber optics, and Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith, who...

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