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Events

in 2009

Professor Charles K. Kao, former Vice-chancellor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, receives the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics 'from Sweden's King Carl

Gustaf in Stockholm in

December. Professor Kao

was born in Shanghai but moved to Hong Kong in 1948 where he attended secondary school and lived during much of his career. He is widely regarded as the 'Father of Fibre Optics'.

Events in 2009

Courtesy of Reuters/OTHK

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