Topic: Waretown
AP News | 2009-10-06 16:48:29
George E. Smith, 79, receives a congratulatory telephone call at his home in Waretown, N.J., Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009, after it was announced that he had won the Nobel Prize in physics. Smith along with Willard S. Boyle, 85 ...
AP News | 2009-10-06 20:01:29
3 men win Nobel Prize in physics for work in fiber optics, digital photography
The next time you snap a digital photo and post it to Facebook, you can probably thank the three men who won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday. They helped develop fiber-optic cable and invented the "eye" in digital cameras — technology that has given rise to ...
AP Features | 2009-10-06 17:15:37
Three Americans whose 1960s research laid the foundation for today's world of computerized images and lightning-fast communication shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for their work developing fiber-optic cable and the sensor at the heart of digital cameras. Charles K. Kao, 75, was cited for discovering how to transmit light signals over long distances through glass fibers ...
