Charles K. Kao

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Nobel laureate academic electrical engineer inventor physicist

Charles K. Kao was a pioneering physicist and electrical engineer known as the "father of fiber optics" for his groundbreaking work enabling high-speed optical fiber communications.

Aliases (1)

Charles Kuen Kao ×1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Nobel laureate → academic → electrical engineer → inventor → physicist →
awardReceived	Faraday Medal → IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal → Japan Prize → Nobel Prize in Physics → Stuart Ballantine Medal →
birthCountry	China →
birthDate	1933-11-04 →
birthPlace	Shanghai →
causeOfDeath	Alzheimer's disease →
citizenship	Hong Kong → United Kingdom → United States →
countryOfWork	Hong Kong → United Kingdom → United States →
deathDate	2018-09-23 →
deathPlace	Hong Kong →
degree	Bachelor of Engineering → PhD in Electrical Engineering →
educatedAt	University of London → Woolwich Polytechnic →
employer	Chinese University of Hong Kong → ITT Corporation → Standard Telecommunication Laboratories →
familyName	Kao →
fieldOfWork	electrical engineering → fiber-optic communications → optics →
fullName	Charles Kuen Kao →
givenName	Charles →
hasEthnicGroup	Chinese →
influenced	modern telecommunications →
knownFor	being the "father of fiber optics" → development of low-loss optical fibers for communication → pioneering work on fiber optics →
languageSpoken	Chinese → English →
nativeName	高錕 →
NobelPrizeCategory	Physics →
NobelPrizeMotivation	for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication →
NobelPrizeYear	2009 →
notableWork	proposal of using ultra-pure glass fibers for long-distance communication → theoretical analysis of attenuation in optical fibers →
positionHeld	Vice-Chancellor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong →
spouse	Gwen May-Wan Kao →

Referenced by (4)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
IEEE Medal of Honor → Rumford Medal →	notableRecipient
Charles K. Kao ("Charles Kuen Kao") →	fullName
IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal →	hasRecipient