THE 2009 NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS WILL BE AWARDED TO Charles K. Kao (Standard Telecommunication Laboratories, Harlow, UK, and Chinese University of Hong Kong), and Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith (both of whom worked chiefly at Bell Laboratories, in Murray Hill, NJ, USA) for their work leading to modern telecommunications. Kao will receive half the prize money for helping to invent modern optical fiber, allowing signals to travel flawlessly thousands of miles. Boyle and Smith will split the other half of the prize for their development of charge coupled devices (CCDs).
- To learn more about this years recipients and read some of their original ground breaking research please visit the American Institute of Physics 2009 Physics Nobel Prize Resources page.
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- Willard S. Boyle
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- George E. Smith
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- Charles K. Kao
