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Easy MoneyCharles Kuen Kao (76) may have no hope any longer have the most prestigious award like the Nobel was announced on Tuesday (6 / 10). The discovery that brings success, fiber optics, has been found 43 years ago. The findings proved to spur rapid development of telecommunication science. Kao also above services, we are now able to "talk" and "inscribed" via computer.
The irony is felt by his wife, Wong May-wan, when receiving the news. "I felt tremendous pressure because I know how this guy before," he said. Kao's current condition does not allow for him to give lectures Nobel laureate, one of the Nobel Prize acceptance of tradition.
"This disease has changed him, as if he's gone. I often cry. I know this guy is not the same person again with the first, "said Wong.
"To say what is in my heart was hard for me to do," said Kao, told AFP in an interview at his home in Mountain View, near San Francisco, Thursday (8 / 10). He is now difficult to speak and suffering from Alzheimer's dementia who attacked him.
Kao, former Vice-Rector of Hong Kong Chinese University and has dual British citizenship and the U.S., claiming "very happy" to accept the Nobel Prize.
Kao colleagues in Hong Kong felt the decision to award it take too long. Professor Ambrose King, former Vice-Rector of Hong Kong Chinese University, said, "It would be nice if it got the award last year. However, this is not too late for him. "
Executive Director of Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Nim-kwan Cheung and Nobel laureate in 1957 revealed the same thing. "Fiber optics are used globally since 1980. These achievements should be rewarded long before now, "he said.
According to Wong, the wife of Kao, the most prize money will be donated to Alzheimer's treatment in the U.S. and the foundation of nursing at St James' Settlement.
Breakthrough in communication
Kao received half of the prize sum of 10 million Swedish krona (approximately USD 14 billion), while the second recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics with Kao, Sterling Willard Boyle (85) and George Elwood Smith (79), received each quarter of the total prize .
Kao optical fiber cable, which he discovered in 1966, opened the underlying breakthrough innovation in the world of telecommunications and optics. With pure glass fibers, light can be transmitted up to a distance of more than 100 kilometers. With the cable types available in the 1960s that the farthest distance of the light transmission is only 20 meters. Pure fiber-optic cable was first produced in industrial scale in 1970.
Fibers with this pure fiberglass facilitate broadband communications (broadband) as the global Internet. Text, music, images, and video can be transferred to all corners of the world in seconds. If we break down all the fiber optics that surround the Earth, then we can get a single optical fiber whose length is more than one trillion miles. Optical fiber is enough for all around the world more than 25,000 times and counting thousands of miles per hour.
In 1969, three years after the invention of fiber optics by Kao, Boyle and Smith found a charged-coupled device (CCD), imaging the semiconductor circuit is a digital camera eye. With the light sensor can be converted into pixels in a short time. CCD technology uses photo-electric effect as the theory put forward Albert Einstein (a Nobel Prize in 1921).
Sailing along
Smith and Boyle are two good friends at work and outside work. They often sail together around Numea in the South Pacific for several weeks.
Boyle grew up in Nova Scotia, a province in Canada, a new taste school in high school level. Previously he was always studying at home with home schooling system. "My mother has done a good job. He taught me, "Boyle said to Nobelprize.org Executive Editor Adam Smith.
Boyle and Smith did research together at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey, reveals, there are 8 to 10 Bell Laboratories researcher who received the Nobel Prize. Bell leaders know one by one its members and often have lunch with them. "This is called management 'walking around'," said Boyle who could be involved in the Apollo program of research.
40-year interval was made Boyle never dreamed I would achieve Prize. "Because, from time to time people around us so that we receive the Nobel Prize was thinking, 'our findings deserve. It may be we get something, but I do not know. We expect the best, but nothing happened '. So we ignore it (Nobel affairs), "said Boyle.
Phone ringing at 05.00 am he received a moment he thought was just kidding. He became convinced when he heard a Swedish accent on the other side of the receiver. "I think, yes no one bother to call anyone else at five in the morning just for a joke," said Boyle.
Do not know
Meanwhile, for George Elwood Smith, Adam Smith of the phone Nobelprize.org is "notice" of his victory. Her first reaction was shock that followed the thought that he would accept it with Boyle, co-workers.
"I'm awake, but when I reached the phone ringer off. Therefore, I am still awake, "said Smith about the phone ringing that was from the Royal Swedish Academy, an institution that sets the recipient of the Nobel Prize.
Smith reveals how he and colleagues Boyle is very compact. They have about 40 inventions patented in the name of both. And, of sailing together, Smith asserted, "Now we are not going to sail again. My age 79 might be too old for that. "
CHARLES KAO Kuen
• Born: Shanghai, China, 1933 • Nationality: British and U.S. • Doctor of Electrical Engineering (1965) from Imperial College London, UK • Director of Engineering of Standard Telecommunication Laboratories, Harlow, England • Vice Chancellor Chinese University of Hong Kong, retired 1996
Willard STERLING BOYLE
• Born: Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada, 1924 • Nationality: Canada and the U.S. • Doctor of Physics (1950) from McGill University, Quebec, Canada • Executive Director of the Communication Sciences Division, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey, USA , retired 1979
Elwood GEORGE SMITH
• Born: White Plains, New York, USA, 1930 • Nationality: USA • Doctor of Physics (1959) • Head of VLSI Device Department, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey, USA, retired 1986
