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| Nobel recognises communications | Nobel recognises communications |
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| Charles Kao, Willard Boyle, and George Smith will share this year's Nobel Prize for physics. | Charles Kao, Willard Boyle, and George Smith will share this year's Nobel Prize for physics. |
| UK-based Kao is lauded for his work in helping to develop fibre optic cables, the slender threads of glass that carry data, such as telephone calls. | |
| Boyle and Smith, who work out of the US, are recognised for their part in the invention of the charged coupled device, or CCD. | Boyle and Smith, who work out of the US, are recognised for their part in the invention of the charged coupled device, or CCD. |
| This is the light detector that lies at the heart of all digital cameras. | This is the light detector that lies at the heart of all digital cameras. |
| The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said half the prize would go to Kao, who is affiliated to Standard Telecommunication Laboratories in the British town of Harlow, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. | |
| The academy said the honour was "for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibres for optical communication". | |
| The other half is to be split between Boyle and Smith, both of Bell Laboratories at Murray Hill in the US sate of New Jersey, for "the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit -- the CCD sensor." | |
| The Nobel Prizes - which also cover chemistry, medicine, literature, peace and economics (more properly called the Sveriges Riksbank Prize) - are valued at 10m Swedish Kronor (£900,000; 1m euros; $1.4m). | The Nobel Prizes - which also cover chemistry, medicine, literature, peace and economics (more properly called the Sveriges Riksbank Prize) - are valued at 10m Swedish Kronor (£900,000; 1m euros; $1.4m). |
| Laureates also receive a medal and a diploma. | Laureates also receive a medal and a diploma. |
| This year's chemistry Nobel, announced on Monday, honoured the study of telomeres, the structures in cells that cap the end's of DNA bundles, or chromosomes. | This year's chemistry Nobel, announced on Monday, honoured the study of telomeres, the structures in cells that cap the end's of DNA bundles, or chromosomes. |
| The work has further our understanding on human ageing, cancer and stem cells. | The work has further our understanding on human ageing, cancer and stem cells. |
| Jonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk | Jonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk |