Gao Kun

Sir Charles Kuen Kao, Grand Bauhinia Honor (English: Sir Charles Kuen Kao, November 4, 1933 - September 23, 2018), electrical engineer. He was born and raised in Shanghai (until junior high school). In 1949, he fled Hong Kong and settled in British Hong Kong with his family. In 1966, he conducted a landmark optical fiber experiment at the British Standard Telecommunications Laboratory. In 2009, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for "breakthrough achievements in the field of optical communications in which light is transmitted through fibers." He returned to Hong Kong in 1970 and served as President of the Chinese University of Hong Kong from 1987 to 1996.