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Little Dog
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Little Dog asked in Computers & InternetComputer Networking · 1 decade ago

All of us should be thanking these guys...?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091006/ts_nm/us_nobel...

"Charles Kao, a Shanghai-born British-American, won half the 10 million Swedish crown ($1.4 million) prize for a discovery that led to a breakthrough in fiber optics, determining how to transmit light over long distances via optical glass fibers.

Willard Boyle, a Canadian-American, and George Smith of the United States shared the other half for inventing the first successful imaging technology using a digital sensor."

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  • Helpful Harry
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
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    They are pretty smart...

    Shanghai-born British-American? That is great.

    Dane

  • Hesamu
    1 decade ago

    human beings amaze themselves

  • ?
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    Your right. Hail to these guys!!!

    Source(s): IT Support Manager
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