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Joseph Rotblat
Sir Joseph Rotblat was a British-naturalised Polish physicist, who won a Nobel Prize.
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Charles Kuen Kao4.11.1933
Wikipedia (24 Oct 2013, 15:40)
The Honorable Sir Charles Kuen Kao (born 4 November 1933) is a Chinese-born Hong Kong, American and British electrical engineer and physicist who pioneered in the development and use of fiber optics in telecommunications. Kao, known as the "Godfather of Broadband", "Father of Fiber Optics" or "Father of Fiber Optic Communications", was jointly awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for "groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication". Kao holds dual citizenship of the United Kingdom and the United States.
