| LC control no. | n 80133626 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Kao, Charles K., 1933-2018 |
| Variant(s) | Kao, Charles, 1933-2018 Kao, C. K. (Charles K.), 1933-2018 高錕, 1933-2018 |
| Birth date | 1933-11-04 |
| Death date | 2018-09-23 |
| Place of birth | Shanghai (China) |
| Place of death | Hong Kong (China) |
| Field of activity | Physics Electrical engineering Fiber optics |
| Affiliation | Chinese University of Hong Kong International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation |
| Profession or occupation | Nobel Prize winners Physicists Electrical engineers College teachers |
| Special note | Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script reference not evaluated. |
| Found in | Optical fiber technology, II, c1980 (a.e.) t.p. (Charles K. Kao, Electro-Optical Products Div., ITT) CIP data sheet (b. 11/4/33) Infrared fibers (0.8-12 [Greek letter mu]m) February 12-13, Los Angeles California, 1981: t.p. (Charles Kao) His Optical fibre, c1988: t.p. (C.K. Kao) Brit. CIP (Kao, Charles K. (Charles Kuen)) New York times WWW site, viewed Sept. 24, 2018 (in obituary published Sept. 24: Charles Kuen Kao; b. Nov. 4, 1933, Shanghai; d. Sunday [Sept. 23, 2018], Hong Kong, aged 84; Nobel laureate in physics whose research in the 1960s revolutionized the field of fiber optics and helped lay the technical groundwork for the information age) |
| Associated language | eng |
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