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The Honourable Sir Charles Kuen Kao, GBM, KBE, FRS, FREng (born 4 November 1933) is a Chinese-born American and British physicist who pioneered in the development and use of fibre optics in telecommunications. Kao, known as the "Godfather of Broadband", "Father of Fibre Optics" or "Father of Fibre Optic Communications", was awarded half of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for "groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibres for optical communication".
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