The Nobel Prize in Physics 2009

[Luke Gu]

Charles K. Kao：
half 1/2 of the prize；
Standard
Telecommunication
Laboratories
Harlow, United Kingdom;
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong, China
Willard S. Boyle：
1/4 of the prize
Bell Laboratories
Murray Hill, NJ, USA
George E. Smith：
1/4 of the prize
Bell Laboratories
Murray Hill, NJ, USA

Physics 2009

[Merlin]

Finally Charles Kao got his Nobel Physics Prize, more than 40 years after his ground breaking work on fiber optics transmission, very important to broadband internet networking.

By now he is an old man, too old to attend some of these prize winning activities.