高錕

繁體中文

高錕1933年喺上海出世，1948年隨家人來港，就讀聖若瑟書院。六十年代佢喺英國標準電訊實驗室做研究，證明除咗雜質嘅玻璃纖維可以將光訊號長距離傳送而損耗極低——呢個發現令光纖通訊成為可能，亦係互聯網時代嘅物理基礎。其後佢回港出任香港中文大學校長，推動電子工程教育。2009年佢獲頒諾貝爾物理學獎，香港人暱稱佢「光纖之父」。2018年逝世。

English

Charles Kao (1933-2018) was born in Shanghai and moved to Hong Kong in 1948, studying at St. Joseph's College. While working at Standard Telecommunication Laboratories in the 1960s, he proved that glass fibres purified of impurities could carry light signals over long distances — the insight that made the internet physically possible. He later served as Vice-Chancellor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In 2009 he received the Nobel Prize in Physics, remembered affectionately in Hong Kong as the 'Father of Fibre Optics'.