Chinese-born Briton, Charles Kuen Kao, shares Nobel prize in physics with George Smith and Willard Boyle for developing optical fibresA Chinese-born Briton who graduated from Woolwich Polytechnic in east London and became director of research at a mobile... ...full story at Guardian Unlimited
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