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This blue commemorative plaque records: To honour the award to Sir Charles Kao of the Nobel Physics Prize 2009 for the invention of Optical Fibre Communications at Standard Telecommunication Labs 1960-1970 A Harlow achievement Recorded plaque organisation: Harlow Civic Society.
Charles K. Kao was a physicist and engineer who pioneered the development of optical fiber communications, revolutionizing global telecommunications by enabling high-speed data transmission over long distances; his work earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2009.
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