Charles K. Kao, a Chinese man, who grown up in Shanghai, China, has won 2009 Nobel Prize in physics. He was the pioneer of high speed Internet using fiber optics. He discovered fiber optic (using pure type of glass) which can transmit light over 100 kilometers (62 miles) in 1966. This year's Nobel Prize in physics was shared with two other scientists, Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith, who invented the first digital imaging sensor in 1969.
(photo: Richard Epworth, repro from cnet.com)
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