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Sir Charles Kuen Kao  (4 November 1933 – 23 September 2018) was a Hong Kong electrical engineer and physicist who pioneered the development and use of fibre optics in telecommunications. In the 1960s, Kao created various methods to combine glass fibres with lasers in order to transmit digital data, which laid the groundwork for the evolution of the Internet. "Communication as we know it, including the Internet, would not exist without fiber optics", said William Wulf, president of the National Academy of Engineering in 1999.Known as the "Godfather of Broadband", the "Father of Fibre Optics", and the "Father of Fiber Optic Communications", Kao was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for "groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication".Kao held citizenships in the United Kingdom and the United States, and was a permanent resident of Hong Kong. However, in an interview in 2000, he stated that he belongs and did not consider himself tied to any particular country nor ethnic group. In an open letter that co-written by Kao and his wife in 2009, further declared "Charles [Kao] really does belong to the world! " However, in February 2010 open letter by the couple, it declared " Charles studied in Hong Kong for his high schooling, he has taught here, he was the Vice-Chancellor of CUHK and retired here too...... So he is a Hong Kong belonger."