Charles K. Kao

Charles K. Kao

male, 76 years old
Charles Kuen Kao, Ph.D is a pioneer in the use of fiber optics in telecommunications. He was born in Shanghai in 1933, left in electrical...
Basil Hirschowitz

Basil Hirschowitz

male
Basil Elvis Hirschowitz is an academic gastroenterologist from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) best known in the field for having...
Narinder Singh Kapany

Narinder Singh Kapany

male
Dr. Narinder Singh Kapany is widely acknowledged as the father of optical fiber. Earlier, Irish physicist John Tyndall had shown that light could...
Jun-Ichi Nishizawa

Jun-Ichi Nishizawa

male, 83 years old
Jun-Ichi Nishizawa(西澤潤一, born September 12,1926 in Sendai, Japan) is a Japanese engineer known for his invention of optical communication systems...
Tsuneo Nakahara

Tsuneo Nakahara

male, 79 years old
is a communications engineer, executive advisor to the CEO of Sumitomo Electric. He was one of the main researchers contributing to the development...
Rob Frieden

Rob Frieden

male, 54 years old (University Park, Pennsylvania, United States)
Rob Frieden holds the Pioneers Chair and serves as Professor of Telecommunications at Penn State University. Frieden holds a B.A., with...
Christopher Ries

Christopher Ries

male, 57 years old
Christopher Ries (b. 1952) is an American glass sculptor. Ries was born in Columbus, Ohio and grew up on a farm. He attended Ohio State University,...
Torkel Engeness

Torkel Engeness

male, 37 years old
Torkel Engeness was the first ever Olympic flag bearer for the nation of Kyrgyzstan despite being a Norwegian citizen and having no connection to...