The Nobel Prize in Physics 2009

"for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication"
"for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit – the CCD sensor"

Charles K. Kao

1/2 of the prize

Standard Telecommunication

Laboratories Harlow, United Kingdom;

Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China

b. 1933(in Shanghai, China)

Willard S. Boyle
1/4 of the prize
Bell Laboratories Murray Hill, NJ, USA
b. 1924(in Amherst, NS, Canada)

George E. Smith

1/4 of the prize

Bell Laboratories Murray Hill, NJ, USA

b. 1930