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The Nobel Foundation said the work of all three of this year's physics laureates |
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was groundbreaking. |
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Without their research, |
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modern communications technology |
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including digital cameras and the internet might not exist. |
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Charles Kao was born in Shanghai |
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but worked in Britain |
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where in 1966 he developed the idea of transmitting light |
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over long distances using optical glass fibres. |
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Today these fibre cables carry much of the world's data |
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and telephony traffic. |
