Abstract

Charles Kuen Kao Life Fellow of the IEEE and Nobel Laureate, died from Alzheimer's disease on September 23, 2018 in CA, USA, after a rich life of work and family in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Hong Kong. The Nobel committee in physics honored him in 2009 “for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication.” He spent his engineering career at the International Telephone & Telegraph Company's (ITT's) Standard Telecommunications Laboratories (STL) in and near London, where he organized and championed the development of single-mode fiber optic systems in the 1960s.

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