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mommyerin blog on Absolute Radio (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
BOSTON—Members of the world's engineering and telecommunications communities admitted Tuesday that fiber optics, the supposed technological application that ostensibly allows light to carry signals across optical cables, is not actually a real thing. "Yeah, we sort of made that one up," renowned physicist Willard Boyle said of the fictitious technology around which a $40 billion-a-year...
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Cocktail Party Physics (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
One half of the Nobel Prize in Physics this year was awarded to Willard Boyle and George E. Smith, who developed charge coupled devices (CCDs) at Bell Labs in the late 60's. Their work combined attempts to make 'picture phones'...
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Physics and Physicists (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
And excellent article on the importance, and necessity, of fundamental, basic research in light of the Nobel Prize in physics this year. The problem the country faces is that the conditions in which Charles Kao, Willard Boyle, and George Smith made their breakthroughs are harder to come by today. Kao, for example, made his breakthroughs in fiber optics (the thin glass threads that now carry a vast...
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The EEB and flow (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
As news of the latest Nobel prizes in physics and medicine were announced, science became a central story for many news outlets. Numerous stories and interviews were held about the discoveries that earned the laureates their just rewards. I’ve heard interviews with medicine winners, Elizabeth Blackburn and Carol Greider (2/3 of the prize, the other being Jack Szostak), about their discovery of...
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BlatantNews.com (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Charles K. Kao, Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith - the fathers of fiber optics and digital imaging - get the Nobel Prize for Physics, and multiple winners also recieved the Medicine and Chemistry Medals too. View a full list of all winners of the six medals, and reasons for the awards
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Blue Jersey: Covering NJ like a rug (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
The 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics was shared by Charles Kuo for the fiberoptics and Willard Boyle and George Smith of New Jersey's Bell Labs for "the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit - the CCD sensor" or "Charge-Coupled Device." Just about every photo we've posted at Blue Jersey has used a CCD camera, for they are now widely available as the heart of the "digital...
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Digital Cheeseburger (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Digital Cheeseburger - your daily diet of irresistible unhealthy stuff is an entertainment post from: Digital Cheeseburger - covering Celebrity News, Hollywood Rumors, Celebrity Gossip, Celeb Opinion Here is a list of all the 2009 Nobel Prize winners for their respective categories, and the reasons given by The Nobel Prize committee for awarding prizes to these recipients. Physiology or Medicine:...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
&$ &$Photos of three winners of the Nobel Prize in physics for 2009 are seen on a screen during an announcement ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden, Oct. 6, 2009. Charles K. Kao, Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith on Tuesday won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries of importance for the internet and data and telephone communications and the digital camera. (Xinhua/Wu Ping) &$ &$...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
The following is a list of winners of the Nobel Prize in physics since 2000: 2009: Charles K. Kao (Britain and U.S.), Willard S. Boyle (U.S. and Canada) and George E. Smith (U.S.); 2008: Yoichiro Nambu (U.S.), Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa (Japan); 2007: Albert Fert (France) and Peter Grunberg (Germany); 2006: John C. Mather and George F. Smoot (U.S.); 2005: John L. Hall, Roy J. Glauber (U.S.)...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
&$ &$Photos of three winners of the Nobel Prize in physics for 2009 are seen on a screen during an announcement ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden, Oct. 6, 2009. Charles K. Kao, Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith on Tuesday won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries of importance for the internet and data and telephone communications and the digital camera. (Xinhua/Wu Ping) &$ &$...
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Digital SLR Camera (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
The Nobel prize in Physics this year was granted on this last Tuesday for two fundamental discoveries for the current society of the information, that gave the bases for the communication for the internet and for the digital picture. To Real Swedish Academy of Sciences recognized Charles Kao works. Kao, British-north-American of Chinese origin, for his conquests in the transmission of the light in...
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The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
A look back at the week's biggest Google-related news stories: Google, Verizon unite on Android devices Verizon and Google have entered into an agreement to jointly develop wireless devices based on Google's open source Android mobile platform.During a teleconference Tuesday, Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam and Google CEO Eric Schmidt outlined the companies' new strategic partnership that will see them...
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KIJO (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
So apparently a controversial Nobel Peace Prize was awarded this week. Forget that one. Focus instead on the far geekier one that was also awarded this week. Why? Because we gadget lovers have a lot to be thankful for! The Nobel Prize for physics is the award in question, and it was actually split between two winners this year. The first, Charles K. Kao, is the man most responsible for making fiber...
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The Konformist Blog (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125481670211367051.html TECHNOLOGY OCTOBER 7, 2009 'Masters of Light' Get Nobel Physicists Honored for Breakthroughs That Play Key Roles in Internet, Digital Cameras By GAUTAM NAIK Three scientists who harnessed the power of light in ways that helped turn the Internet into a global phenomenon and launched the digital-camera revolution were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize...
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switbd | 10/07/2009
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2009 with one half to Charles K. Kao, Standard Telecommunication Laboratories, Harlow, UK, and Chinese University of Hong Kong “for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication”, and the other half jointly to Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith, Bell Laboratories,
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