FTTH Conference 2019: Winner of 1st Charles Kao Award announced!
| published: | Mar 14, 2019 |
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| category: | Latest News |
| Source: | FTTH Council Europe |
Amsterdam, 14 March 2019 – At the closing ceremony of the FTTH Conference 2019, the FTTH Council Europe has presented the inaugural Charles Kao Award, in honour of fibre pioneer Professor Charles Kao who passed away in 2018. Sir Charles Kuen Kao was awarded in 2009 the Nobel Prize in Physics for "ground-breaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibres for optical communication”.
The first recipient of this new and prestigious award is Greg Mesch, Chief Executive Officer of CityFibre, the UK’s leading alternative builder of full fibre infrastructure.
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