Charles K. Kao
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Physics — 2009for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication
- Citizenship
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United States 
United Kingdom - Languages
- English, Chinese
- date of birth
- 11/4/1933
- place of birth
- Shanghai
- date of death
- 9/23/2018
- place of death
- Bradbury Hospice
- Lived
- 84 years
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- member of
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- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- start time: 1979
- National Academy of Engineering
- start time: 1990
- Academia Sinica
- start time: 1992
- Royal Society of London
- start time: 1997
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- start time: 1996
- Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences
- European Academy of Sciences and Arts
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- educated at
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- University College London
- University of Greenwich
- University of London
- employer
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- Yale University
- The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Queen Mary University of London
- Imperial College London
- field of work
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- data transmission
- electrical engineering
- glass fiber
- history of technology
- telecommunications
- optical fiber
- optical communication
- occupation
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- inventor
- entrepreneur
- physicist
- university teacher
- scientist
- executive
- electrical engineer
- work location
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- Hong Kong