Charles K. Kao
This is a Chinese name; the family name is Kao. Charles K. Kao Traditional Chinese 高錕 Simplified Chinese 高锟 Transcriptions Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Gāo Kūn Wade–Giles Kao1 K'un1 The Honourable Sir Charles Kuen Kao, GBM, KBE, FRS, FREng (born 4 November 1933) is a Chinese-born Hong Kong, American and British electrical engineer and physicist who pioneered in the development and use of fiber optics in telecommunications. Kao, known as the "Godfather of Broadband", "Father of Fiber Optics" or "Father of Fiber Optic Communications", was jointly awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for "groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication". Kao holds multiple citizenship of Hong Kong, the United Kingdom and the United States.