Charles Kao, who won the Nobel Prize in 2009 for his work on distortion in fiber optics, died.
Hong Kong administration, Shanghai-born alzaymır patient Kao'nın yesterday announced that 84 years of life.
While working as a researcher at the ITT company, Kao published an article in 1966 that he could use pure glass wires with a colleague for communication over very long distances and led to the emergence of a new industry.
South China Morning wrote that Kao's work made "the Internet possible".
Kao, who left Hong Kong in 1948 with his family, shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with George Smith and Willard Boyle in 2009. Three scientists are known as "masters of light".
