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How old was Kao Kun when he invented optical fiber?

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How old was Kao Kun when he invented "optical fiber"?

Kao Kun has a perseverant research spirit. In order to study the feasibility of optical fiber communication, he often lingers in the laboratory and leaves his family behind. Friends who have known Kao Kun for many years think that his way of thinking is unique. His personal assistant who has worked with him for many years has never seen him lose his temper. His wife, who has been with him for decades, often reminds him not to trust others too much to avoid being deceived. ; In the eyes of his children, he is a good father who has a broad mind and combines work with play. Behind the work, Kao Kun is full of childishness and has a strong interest in numbers. Even the prices of goods in supermarkets can be examples for him to cite numerical theory. Kao Kun's behavior and thoughts were often unexpected. He didn't learn to dive until he was sixty years old. His daily leisure activities were making pottery and playing tennis. His greatest enjoyment is quietly stroking the clay bottle alone. For Kao Kun, he was very interested in anything new and fresh. Gao also has an alternative worldview. He has no sense of belonging to Shanghai, his birthplace. No matter where he lives, it makes no difference to Kao Kun. He says that he belongs where he is. Perhaps this kind of thinking makes his field of scientific and technological research without boundaries. Kao Kun's childhood is a typical growth story of a scientist. He was born in Shanghai in 1933 and lived in the French Concession. He attended the World School (today's International School) in elementary school and had to study Chinese, English and French. My father is a lawyer and his family is relatively wealthy. He lives in a three-story building. The third floor is his childhood laboratory. At the beginning, he was most interested in chemistry and made fire extinguishers, fireworks, and photographic paper. But the most classic thing is to make bombs. He knew that after mixing red phosphorus powder and potassium chlorate, it would burn. So when he mixed the two chemicals, he added water to form a paste, which would not catch fire immediately. Later, he got a piece of wet mud and put chemicals into the mud like making glutinous rice balls. After drying, he threw it into the street, and sure enough, it exploded! Fortunately no passers-by were hurt. After the chemistry experiments, he made radios, using five or six vacuum tubes to make radio receivers. His younger brother Gao Zhen was influenced by his elder brother and became his best partner in experiments. Today Gao is studying fluid mechanics at the Catholic University of America in Washington and is also very successful. In 1948, his family immigrated to Hong Kong, China. After arriving in Hong Kong, he enrolled in St. Joseph's College and later the University of Hong Kong. However, the University of Hong Kong did not have a Department of Electrical Engineering at that time. Determined to study this subject, he had no choice but to go to the University of London. After graduating from university, he joined the International Telephone and Telegraph Company (ITT) in the UK as an engineer. Due to his good performance, he was hired as a research laboratory researcher. At the same time, he studied for a doctorate at the University of London and graduated in 1965. 2010-05-15 15:35:43 Supplement: Kao Kun (November 4, 1933 -), a Chinese-American, was born in Jinshan, Shanghai, China. Expert in optical fiber communications and electrical engineering. The father of optical fiber and former president of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, the Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences, the Royal Society of Arts, a foreign academician of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, and an academician of the Academia Sinica in Taiwan. In 1996, he was elected as a foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. 2010-05-15 15:36:08 Supplement: In 1965, a paper based on numerous experiments proposed that the use of quartz-based glass fibers for long-distance information transmission would bring about a revolution in communications, and proposed that when glass fibers When the loss rate drops to 20 dB/km, optical fiber communication can be successful. His research opened the door for mankind to enter a new era of light conduction. To this end, he has won the Edison Telecommunications Prize, the Marconi International Prize, the Bell Prize, the Ballentine Medal, the Liebman Prize and the Optoelectronics Prize.

2010-05-15 15:36:30 Supplement: Personal profile Married on September 19, 1959 Educational background Bachelor of Science, University of London, UK (1957) Doctor of Philosophy, University of London, UK (1965) 2010-05-15 15:36:49 Supplement: Experience: British International Telephone and Telegraph Company (1957) Standard Communications Laboratory affiliated with British International Telephone and Telegraph Company (1960) Professor and Chair Professor of Department of Electronics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China (1970-1974) Chief Scientist of British International Telephone and Telegraph Company (1974) Engineering President , Administrative Scientist (1982); President of Research Affairs (1986) President of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, China (1987-1996) Academician of the National Academy of Engineering (1990) Academician of the Academia Sinica, Taiwan (1992) Chairman and CEO of Hi-tech Bridge Co., Ltd., Hong Kong, China (1996 -) 2010-05-15 15:37:06 Supplement: Academic honors he has received for his expertise in optical fiber communications: Mani Award of the American Silicate Society (1976) Stewart Ballantine Medal of the Franklin Institute of the United States (1977) Ranke of the United Kingdom The Trust's Rank Award (1978) The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Morris H. Lieberman Memorial Award (1978) The Swedish Ellison Foundation's L. M. Ellison International Award (1979) United States Armed Forces Institute of Communications and Electronics Gold Medal Award (1980) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Alexander Grimm Bell Medal (1985) Marconi Foundation Marconi International Scientist Award (1985) 2010-05-15 15:37: 19 Supplement: Honorary Doctor of Science, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China (1985) Columbus Medal of Genoa, Italy (1985) Communication and Computer Award of the Japan Foundation for the Promotion of Communications and Computers (1987) Faraday Medal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, UK (1989) New Materials of the American Physical Society International Award (1989) Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Sussex, UK (1990) Academician of the National Academy of Engineering, USA (1990) Honorary Doctor of Science, Soka University, Japan (1991) Honorary Doctor of Engineering, University of Grazko, UK (1992) SPIE Gold Medal Award (1992) ) Academician of Academia Sinica, Taiwan (1992) Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1993) Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Durham, UK (1994) World Association of Engineering Organizations Gold Medal for Outstanding Engineering Achievement (1995) First Honorary Doctor of Service, Griffiths University, Australia (1995) The 12th Japan International Award (1996) 2010-05-15 15:37:25 Supplement: Current Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Hong Kong Hi-tech Bridge Co., Ltd. 2010-05-15 15:39:25 Supplement: According to him According to the theory, an optical fiber as thin as a hair can be bent easily and lightly. The speed of transmitting information is equivalent to a bundle of copper wires as thick as a dinner table. 2010-05-15 15:39:50 Added: About 1966.

Charles Kuen Kao, CBE (Charles Kuen Kao, born November 4, 1933), is a Chinese physicist. He was born in Shanghai, China. His ancestral home is Jinshan, Jiangsu (now Jinshan District, Shanghai). He has academic backgrounds in the United Kingdom and the United States. Nationality and permanent resident status of Hong Kong, China. Currently living in Hong Kong, China and Mountain View, California, USA. Kao Kun is an expert in optical fiber communications and electrical engineering. He is called the "Father of Fiber Optic Communications" by the Chinese media and is universally known as the "Father of Fiber Optic Communications." He was the president of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, China. In 2009, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Willard Boyle and George Elwood Smith. Early life Gao Kun was born in Shanghai on November 4, 1933. His grandfather was Gao Chuiwan, a famous scholar in Nanshe during the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. His father Gao Junxiang was a practicing lawyer who returned from studying in the United States. His uncle Gao Junping was a famous astronomer in modern times. His younger brother Gao Zhen is a tenured professor at the Catholic University of America. When he was a child, his family lived in a three-story house in the French Concession.

Before entering school, his father hired a teacher to teach Gao Kun and Gao Zhen how to recite the Four Books and Five Classics. When Gao Kun was ten years old, he entered Shanghai World School and completed the first grade of primary school and junior high school in Shanghai. In addition to receiving Chinese education, he also learned English. and French. As a child, Kao Kun was very interested in chemistry, and the third floor of his family's house became his laboratory. Gao once made his own chlorine gas to make fire extinguishers, fireworks, fireworks and photographic paper; the most dangerous one was mixing red phosphorus powder and potassium chlorate, adding water to make a paste, then mixing it into mud and rolling it into a mud bomb. Later he became obsessed with radio and successfully installed a radio with five or six vacuum tubes. The family moved to Taiwan in 1948, and later Kao Kun's father and his family moved to Hong Kong, China. In 1949, Kao Kun entered the fourth grade of secondary school at St. Joseph's College in Hong Kong, China. Although he was admitted to the University of Hong Kong after graduating from high school, he was determined to study electrical engineering. The University of Hong Kong did not have this major at the time, so he went to the University of Hong Kong in East London at the time. Woolwich Institute of Technology (now the University of Greenwich), obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University of London in 1957[15], and later obtained a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Imperial College London in 1965 (Imperial College London) The college officially separated from the University of London system in 2007). Kao Kun and his wife Huang Meiyun met in London. At that time, he had just come to the UK from Hong Kong, China, to study, and his wife was of local Chinese descent. The two got married in 1959 and have their eldest son Ming Zhang and second daughter Ming Qi. They both currently live and work in Silicon Valley, USA. Career In 1957, Kao Kun entered the International Telephone and Telegraph Company (ITT) and worked as an engineer in one of its British subsidiaries, the Standard Telephone and Cable Company. In 1960, he joined the Standard Communications Laboratory, ITT's European central research facility in the UK, where he served for ten years, rising from research scientist to research manager. During the ITT period, Kao Kun studied the use of glass fibers for signal transmission and published many papers on the experimental results. Among them, the paper "Optical Frequency Dielectric Fiber Surface Waveguide" published in 1966 [22] pointed out: using quartz-based glass fibers Long-distance information transmission will bring about a revolution in communications. It is proposed that when the attenuation rate (Attenuation) of glass fiber drops to 20 decibels per kilometer, optical fiber communication can be successful. His research opened the door for mankind to enter a new era of light conduction. For this purpose, he won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics, the Edison Telecommunications Prize, the Marconi International Prize, the Bell Prize, the Ballentine Medal, the Liebman Prize and the Optoelectronics Prize. In 1970, Kao was invited by the Chinese University of Hong Kong to establish the Department of Electronics (now known as the Department of Electronic Engineering) and served as a professor and chair professor of the Department of Electronics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong for four years. In 1974, he returned to ITT Corporation and served as chief scientist in the Optoelectronic Products Department in Roanoke, Virginia, USA, and was later promoted to engineering director. In 1982, he was appointed as the first "ITT Executive Scientist" for his outstanding research and management talents, working at the Advanced Technology Center in Connecticut. In 1987, he served as the third president of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, China, and founded the "Department of Information Engineering" in 1989 until his official retirement in 1996. In 1997, he returned to Hong Kong and established "Trtech Corporation" to provide technology consulting services. He also served as a member of the Science and Technology Innovation Committee of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China. In 2000, he invested and established "Trtech Optical Fiber Co., Ltd." (English: Trtech) in Tai Po Industrial Estate. Optical Fiber Co Ltd.), which produced optical fiber products, later changed ownership and changed its name to "Gaokeqiao Optical Communications Co., Ltd." in 2003. The Purple Mountain Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences announced in 1996 that a newly discovered asteroid was named "Kun Gao" (international number 3463) in recognition of his outstanding contributions to science. In early 2004, Kao Kun was confirmed to be suffering from early-stage Alzheimer's disease and received treatment. However, it was not until 2009 when Kao Kun won the Nobel Prize in Physics that it was widely reported [29]. His wife Huang Meiyun said in an interview with Hong Kong's "Ming Pao" that Kao "has a poor memory" and sometimes forgets keys or books. Where, but the condition is mild, and there is no problem in recognizing people and directions.

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Kao Kun is an expert in optical fiber communications and electrical engineering. He is hailed by the Chinese media as the "Father of Optical Fiber"[6] and universally known as the "Father of Optical Fiber Communications". "Father of Fiber Optic Communications" (Father of Fiber Optic Communications), former president of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, China. In 2009, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Willard Boyle and George Elwood Smith[1]. In 1957, Kao Kun joined the International Telephone and Telegraph Company (ITT) and worked as an engineer at one of its British subsidiaries, the Standard Telephone and Cable Company. [21] In 1960, he entered the Standard Communications Laboratory, ITT's European central research institution in the UK, where he served for ten years and his position was promoted from research scientist to research manager. [21] In the meantime, he obtained a PhD in Electrical Engineering from University College London in 1965. During the ITT period, Kao Kun studied the use of glass fibers for signal transmission and published many papers on the experimental results. Among them, the paper "Optical Frequency Dielectric Fiber Surface Waveguide" published in 1966 [22] pointed out: using quartz-based glass fibers Long-distance information transmission will bring about a revolution in communications. It is proposed that when the attenuation rate (Attenuation) of glass fiber drops to 20 decibels per kilometer, optical fiber communication can be successful. His research opened the door for mankind to enter a new era of light conduction. For this purpose, he won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics [23] as well as the Edison Telecommunications Prize, the Marconi International Prize, the Bell Prize, the Ballentyne Medal, the Liebman Prize and the Optoelectronics Prize. In 1970, Kun Kao was invited by the Chinese University of Hong Kong to establish the Department of Electronics [20] (now known as the Department of Electronic Engineering), and served as a professor and chair professor of the Department of Electronics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong for four years. [19] In 1974, he returned to ITT Corporation and served as chief scientist in the Optoelectronic Products Department in Roanoke, Virginia, USA, and was later promoted to engineering director. [21] In 1982, he was appointed as the first "ITT Executive Scientist" for his outstanding research and management talents, working at the Advanced Technology Center in Connecticut. [21] In 1987, he served as the third president of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, China, and founded the "Department of Information Engineering" in 1989 until his official retirement in 1996. In 1997, he returned to Hong Kong and established "High-tech Bridge Company" to provide technology consulting services. He also served as a member of the Science and Technology Innovation Committee of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China. In 2000, he invested and established "High-tech Bridge Optical Co., Ltd." in Tai Po Industrial Estate to produce optical fiber products. , later changed ownership and changed its name to "Gaokeqiao Optical Communications Co., Ltd." in 2003. The famous saying "Never blindly trust experts, you must have your own thinking. For example, I said that optical fiber will still be used in a thousand years, so we should not Just believe me, you have to have your own opinions and beliefs. "Young people always have their own ideals, but the most important thing is that you have to clearly understand what you are doing. Also, why do you think and believe this is "doable". 2010-05-14 22:33:20 Supplement: Born November 4, 1933

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