The Nobel Prize in Physics 2009

Published by Surendra Tetarwal for www.currentgk.tk
"for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication"

Charles K. Kao
1/2 of the prize
Standard Telecommunication Laboratories Harlow, United Kingdom; Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China
b. 1933(in Shanghai, China)

for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit – the CCD sensor"

Willard S. Boyle
1/4 of the prize
Bell Laboratories Murray Hill, NJ, USA
b. 1924(in Amherst, NS, Canada)

George E. Smith
1/4 of the prize
Bell Laboratories Murray Hill, NJ, USA
b. 1930