Charles K. Kao

thumb|right|I was trying to sell a dream … There was very little I could put in concrete to tell these people it was really real. Charles Kuen Kao (4 November 1933 – 23 September 2018) was an engineer and a pioneer in the use of fiber optics in telecommunications. Kao is widely regarded as the "Father of Fiber Optic Communications". He was awarded half of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for "groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication". Quotes If you really look at it, I was trying to sell a dream … There was very little I could put in concrete to tell these people it was really real. In an interview, April 9, 1995, about his efforts at persuading telecommunications companies to use optical fibers, as quoted by Jeff Hecht City of light: the story of fiber optics Oxford University Press 2004 0195162552 117 External links Charles K. Kao Category:Academics from China Category:Physicists from China Category:Electrical engineers Category:Educators from China Category:Immigrants to the United States Category:Nobel laureates in Physics Category:People from Shanghai Category:1933 births Category:2018 deaths Category:Nobel laureates from China Category:Yale University faculty Category:Fellows of the Royal Society Category:University College London alumni