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Tuesday 6 October 2009

2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for optical fibres and the CCD

The 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Charles K. Kao (50%) for "for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication" and to Willard S. Boyle & George E. Smith (25% each) for "for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit – the CCD sensor".

See nobelprize.org.
Nobel information on Twitter: twitter.com/Nobelprize_org

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