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Charles Kuen Kao, Hong Kong-American-British electrical engineer and physicist (born 1933)

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Charles K. Kao

Chinese scientist and Nobel Prize Laureate (1933–2018)

Sir Charles Kao Kuen was a Chinese physicist and Nobel laureate 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…
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September 23

Day of the year

September 23 is the 266th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 99 days remain until the end of the year.
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