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    Sir Charles Kao Kuen GBM KBE FRS FREng (November 4, 1933 – September 23, 2018) was a Chinese physicist and Nobel laureate who contributed to the development...
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    Kao Corporation (花王株式会社, Kaō Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese global chemical and cosmetics company headquartered in Nihonbashi-Kayabacho, Chūō, Tokyo,...
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    Archie Kao is an American actor and producer. He is best known to American audiences for series regulars roles on Chicago P.D., Power Rangers Lost Galaxy...
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    sciences. Greenwich's alumni include two Nobel laureates: Abiy Ahmed and Charles K. Kao. It received an overall Gold rating in the UK government's Teaching...
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    and humanities. CommonWealth Magazine was founded by Yin Yu-peng [zh], Charles Kao [zh], and Wang Lixing [zh] in 1981, following the United States' de-recognition...
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  • educated Olympians, local public figures and a Nobel laureate (Professor Charles Kao, Father of fibre optics), and members of Hong Kong's most prominent families...
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  • and the optical amplifier. 1965 – First email sent (at MIT). 1966 – Charles Kao realizes that silica-based optical waveguides offer a practical way to...
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  • worldwide had been discussing. A theoretical publication in 1966 by Charles Kao and George Hockham, who were both part of a team of scientists in the...
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  • opened in September 2014 as Sir Charles Kao UTC. It was named after the Nobel Prize winning scientist Charles K. Kao who worked and studied at Standard...
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    Order of precedence Preceded by Charles Kao Recipient of the Grand Bauhinia Medal Hong Kong order of precedence Recipient of the Grand Bauhinia Medal...
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  • of 1 decibel per meter, a phenomenon known as attenuation. In 1964, Charles Kao showed that to transmit data for long distances, a glass fiber would...
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    chip engineers to MIC 2025, and raised concerns of a "brain drain". Charles Kao, considered Taiwan's "Godfather of DRAM" was among those to leave Taiwan...
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    college to be built in Harlow, which opened in September 2014 as Sir Charles Kao UTC. He set up the Parliamentary Academy, which encourages MPs to employ...
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  • Dayananda Saraswati, Indian monk and philosopher (b. 1930) 2018 – Charles Kuen Kao, Hong Kong-American-British electrical engineer and physicist (b. 1933)...
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    In office 1996–2002 Chancellor Chris Patten Tung Chee-hwa Preceded by Charles Kao Succeeded by Ambrose King Secretary for Education and Manpower In office...
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    vice-chancellors since 1963 Li Choh-ming (1963–78) Ma Lin (1978–87) Sir Charles Kao (1987–96) Arthur Li (1996–2002) Ambrose King (2002–30 June 2004) Lawrence...
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    sabbatical year at National Tsinghua University in Taiwan, Yau was asked by Charles Kao to start a mathematical institute at the Chinese University of Hong Kong...
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  • who are of Chinese descent are Wuyue people, including Tsung Dao Lee, Charles Kao, Steven Chu, Roger Tsien and Youyou Tu. Changzhou dialect Hangzhou dialect...
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  • the post of head of department. Among his students, Barlow supervised Charles Kao, the 2009 Nobel Laureate for Physics, for a doctoral degree. In March...
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  • waited nearly 30 years for material technology to make it work. In 1966, Charles Kao of STC's Standard Telecommunication Laboratories in Harlow demonstrated...
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    Cha-U-Kao was a French entertainer who performed at the Moulin Rouge and the Nouveau Cirque in the 1890s. Her stage name was also the name of a boisterous...
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  • Hinch James Julian Bennett Jack Paul Gordon Jarvis (1935-2013) Kuen Charles Kao Eric Barrington Keverne Philip Joseph Kocienski Peter Benedict Kronheimer...
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  • – Dielectric Fibre Surface Waveguides for Optical Frequencies – with Charles Kao. PhD from University of London (1969) BSc(Eng) Regent Street Polytechnic...
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    as a registered charitable organisation. The school was co-founded by Charles Kao and Frances Wong. In 2003, the foundation established a non-profit, private...
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  • " Leung commented that movement two serves as an homage to the late Charles K. Kao, the pioneer of fibre optics. As for the third movement titled "The...
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  • George Hockham – British engineer; together with Nobel Prize winner Charles Kao, widely recognised a pioneer in the field of optical fibres (PhD Electronic...
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  • Physics affiliated to the Faculty of Engineering Sciences is Professor Charles Kao, for breakthrough discoveries in fibre optics (awarded in 2009). John...
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  • Fortune, 76, American author, journalist and historian, cancer. Sir Charles Kao, 84, Hong Kong electrical engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (2009), complications...
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  • Ching-yuen Huang, children's literature writer (b. 1920). 23 September – Charles Kao, electrical engineer, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate and former president...
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  • Hiroshi Inose (1976), Irwin M. Jacobs (2011), Robert E. Kahn (1994) Sir Charles Kao (1985), James R. Killian (1975), Leonard Kleinrock (1986), Herwig Kogelnik...
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