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2ND REFILE: Kao, Willard and Boyle win Nobel Prize - Summary
Stockholm - Charles K Kao, Willard S Boyle and George E Smith - dubbed the masters of light on Tuesday won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries of importance for the internet and data and telephone ...

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[Posted on : 2009-10-06 ] Category : [ Science (Technology) ]

PROFILE: Charles Kao: 'father of fibre optics,' Nobel winner
Hong Kong - Charles Kao, who was named one of the winners Tuesday of the Nobel Prize in Physics, is known as the father of fibre optic communications for his discovery in the 1960s of the properties of glass fibres, which laid the groundwork for da...

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[Posted on : 2009-10-06 ] Category : [ Science (Technology) ]

Kao, Willard and Boyle win Nobel Prize in Physics - Summary
Stockholm - Charles K Kao, Willard S Boyle and George E Smith - dubbed the masters of light on Tuesday won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries of importance for the internet and data and telephone communications and the digital camera. ...

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[Posted on : 2009-10-06 ] Category : [ Science (Technology) ]

Hong Kong 'father of fibre optics' awarded Nobel Prize for physics
Hong Kong - A Hong Kong professor hailed as the father of fibre optics was on Tuesday awarded the Nobel Prize for physics. Professor Charles Kuen Kao, 75, a formed vice-chancellor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, received the honour for his ...

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[Posted on : 2009-10-06 ] Category : [ Science (Technology) ]

Kao, Willard and Boyle win Nobel Physics Prize - 2nd Update
Stockholm - Charles K Kao, Willard S Boyle and George E Smith won this year's Nobel Prize for Physics for discoveries of importance for the internet and the digital camera, it was announced in Stockholm on Tuesday. Kao was cited for groundbreaking a...

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[Posted on : 2009-10-06 ] Category : [ Science (Technology) ]

CHRONOLOGY: Nobel laureates in Physics since 1960
2009 - Charles K Kao, Willard S Boyle and George E Smith 2008 - Yoichiro Nambu, Makoto Kobayashi, Toshihide Maskawa 2007 - Albert Fert, Peter Grünberg 2006 - John C Mather, George F Smoot 2005 - Roy J Glauber, John L Hall, Theodor W Hänsch 2004 - Da...

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[Posted on : 2009-10-06 ] Category : [ Science (Technology) ]

Kao, Boyle and Smith win joint Nobel for Physics - Update
Stockholm - Charles K Kao, Willard S Boyle and George E Smith have won this year's Nobel Prize for Physics, it was announced in Stockholm on Tuesday. Kao was cited for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibres for op...

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[Posted on : 2009-10-06 ] Category : [ Science (Technology) ]

Vietnam thanks Russia for preserving Ho Chi Minh's body
Hanoi - Vietnam officially thanked Russian medical experts and scientists for their help in preserving the body of founding Communist leader Ho Chi Minh, state media reported Tuesday. Defence Minister Phung Quang Thanh told a visiting delegation of R...

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[Posted on : 2009-10-06 ] Category : [ Science (Technology) ]

PROFILE: Biologist Jack W Szostak
New York - For biologist Jack W Szostak, his Nobel Prize- worthy work investigating telomeres is only one of various stages in his scientific career. The British-born Szostak, 56, a US citizen, wa...

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[Posted on : 2009-10-05 ] Category : [ Science (Technology) ]

PROFILE: Elizabeth Blackburn adds Nobel to two dozen research honours
New York - As a child in Australia's Tasmania, biologist Elizabeth Blackburn was known as the girl who sang to dogs and cats. Now researchers around the world are singing her praises. The 60- year-old, who holds joint US-Australian citizenship, on Mo...

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[Posted on : 2009-10-05 ] Category : [ Science (Technology) ]

Delhi seeks probe over payments to 22,000 'ghost workers'

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