Charles K. Kao
✶November 4, 1933
†September 23, 2018
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✶November 4, 1933
†September 23, 2018
11 candles from 4 countries
Would you like to keep memories of someone else?
Sir Charles Kuen Kao was a Hong Kong electrical engineer who contributed to the development and use of fibre optics in telecommunications. In the 1960s, Kao created various methods to combine glass fibres with lasers in order to transmit digital data, which laid the groundwork for the evolution of the Internet and the eventual creation of the World Wide Web.
Hong Kong electrical engineer (1933–2018)
Biography from the article Charles K. Kao on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.