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If you really look at it, I was trying to sell a dream … There was very little I could put in concrete to tell these people it was really real.

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Charles K. Kao

Charles K. Kao
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Born: November 4, 1933
Died: September 23, 2018 (aged 84)
Bio: Charles Kuen Kao was a Chinese-born Hong Kong, American and British electrical engineer and physicist who pioneered in the development and use of fiber optics in telecommunications.
Known for:
  1. A Time And A Tide (2011)
  2. A choice fulfilled (1991)
  3. Optical Fiber Technology II (1981)

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