The Nobel Prize in physics is going to Kao, Boyle and Smith
Tuesday, October 6, 2009 - 05:21
in Physics & Chemistry
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, has decided to award the Nobel Prize in physics for 2009 with one half to Charles K. Kao, Standard Telecommunication Laboratories, Harlow, UK, and Chinese University of Hong Kong 'for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication' and the other half jointly to Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, USA 'for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit - the CCD sensor'...