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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on the 6th that the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics will be awarded to the British Chinese scientist Kao Kun and the American scientists Willard Boyle and George Smith.

Kun Kao, former president of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, at the naming ceremony of the "Kun Kao Star" in 1996. The picture is provided to China News Service by the Chinese University of Hong Kong

On October 6, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics will be awarded to the British Chinese scientist Kao Kun and the American scientist Willard Boy. Earl and George Smith. This is a photo of Kao Kun, Willard Boyle and George Smith (left to right). Xinhua News Agency/Reuters

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said that Kao has made breakthrough achievements "regarding the transmission of light in fibers for use in optical communications" and he will receive half of this year's physics prize. , ***5 million Swedish krona (approximately US$700,000); Boyle and Smith invented the semiconductor imaging device-the charge-coupled device (CCD) image sensor, and will share the other half of this year's physics prize.

Kun Kao was born in Shanghai, China, in 1933 and served as the president of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Boyle was born in Amherst, Canada, in 1924, and Smith was born in New York, USA, in 1930. Boyle and Smith invented the CCD image sensor in 1969 while working at Bell Labs.

Gao Kun's resume

Gao Kun was born in Shanghai in 1933 and lived in the French Concession. Professor Gao's father is a lawyer and his family is relatively wealthy. He lives in a three-story house, and the third floor became Gao Kun's childhood laboratory. At first, he was most interested in chemistry, trying to make homemade bombs. Mix red phosphorus powder and potassium chlorate, add water and make a paste, then mix it into wet mud and roll it into pellets. After it was dried and thrown onto the street, it exploded. Fortunately no passers-by were hurt.

In 1944, he moved to Hong Kong with his father and enrolled in St. Joseph's College, and then the University of Hong Kong. However, since the University of Hong Kong did not have an electrical engineering department at that time, he had to go to the University of London in England to further his studies. . After graduating from college, he worked as an engineer for the British International Telephone and Telegraph Company (ITT), and was later hired as a research laboratory researcher. At the same time, he studied for a doctorate at the University of London, graduating in 1965. Since 1963, Kao Kun has begun theoretical and practical research on glass fibers, and envisioned a communication method that uses glass fibers to transmit laser pulses instead of using metal cables to output electrical pulses. In 1966, Professor Kao Kun published the basic theory of using extremely pure glass as a medium to transmit light waves for communication purposes.

In 1996, he was elected as a foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and served as the president of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.