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Figure 2.
2009 Nobel Prize lecture
. Poor Charles was too debilitated by Alzheimer's disease to give the talk himself! But if you've got a pulse, you can get the prize, so all good.

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Charles K. Kao, often referred to as the "father of fiber optics," was a Chinese-born physicist and electrical engineer renowned for his pioneering work in the development of fiber optic communication systems. Born on November 4, 1933, in Shanghai, China, he later moved to Hong Kong and then to the United States, where he completed his education.
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