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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2009

"for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication"
"for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit – the CCD sensor"
Charles K. Kao Willard S. Boyle George E. Smith
Photo: Richard Epworth Copyright © National Academy of Engineering Photo: National Inventors Hall of Fame Foundation/SCANPIX
Charles K. Kao Willard S. Boyle George E. Smith
half 1/2 of the prize quarter 1/4 of the prize quarter 1/4 of the prize
Standard Telecommunication Laboratories
Harlow, United Kingdom; Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong, China
Bell Laboratories
Murray Hill, NJ, USA
Bell Laboratories
Murray Hill, NJ, USA
b. 1933
(in Shanghai, China)
b. 1924
(in Amherst, NS, Canada)
b. 1930
 
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