In later years, journalists took to calling Kapany the “father of fiber optics,” and several even claimed that he had been robbed of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics, which instead went to Charles Kao for his own groundbreaking work in fiber optics. Whether Kapany’s scientific contributions stand alongside Kao’s is debatable, but his work as an intellectual evangelist for the burgeoning field of fiber optics is undeniable. A photo provided by the Kapany family, Dr Singh Kapany with members of the Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce at the opening of his company, Optics Technology, in 1960. He wrote the first book on fiber optics and, in a 1960 cover article he wrote for Scientific American, even coined the term itself. Despite his love for research, Kapany had never planned on becoming an academic scientist.

Source: bd News24 January 10, 2021 07:29 UTC