Internet reformer wins nobel physical

A man in China-born Briton who graduated from Woolwich Polytechnic in east London, and became director of research at a phone company in Essex has won the Nobel Prize for physics in this category.
Charles Kuen Kao won half of the prestigious award for research that allows the information sent in a beam of light along glass fibers with a distance of more than 100 km. revolutionized the study of modern communications.

Kao share prize with two Americans, George Smith and Willard Boyle at Bell Labs, New Jersey who developed a charged-coupled device (CCD), or what is known as a kind of miniature digital cameras in devices such as mobile phones and spaceships.

Award was announced at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Nobel Prize awarded to Kao for the "innovative achievement on the transmission of light in fiber optic cable for communication". While Smith and Boyle's "for the discovery of a series of semiconductor imaging - CCD sensor.

Boyle spoke over the phone at a press conference at the Karolinska Institute. Nobel jury said that the study "helps form the basics of the current public networks. They have created a lot of practical innovation to everyday life and provide new tools for scientific exploration".

Optical fiber forms the circulatory system of community-based communications. Glass fiber allows us to communicate globally, including broadband internet. The light flows in a thin thread of glass with almost all telephone and data traffic. Like text, music, pictures and video. All that can be transferred around the world in seconds.