In 1901 the first Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Wilhelm Röntgen for his discovery of X-rays. In more recent years, the Physics Nobel Prize has been awarded for pioneering discoveries and groundbreaking inventions. Although this years winners may seem to have been awarded the prestigious prize for things relating to today’s technology, when they made their discoveries, they were used for things more focused compared to their scope now. One Half of the 2009 Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to Charles Kao, a British and U.S. citizen who was born in Shanghai in 1933. He made a key discovery in 1966, the Nobel committee says: He) carefully calculated how to transmit light over long distances via optical glass fibers. With a fiber of purest glass it would be possible to transmit light signals over 100 kilometers, compared to only 20 meters for the fibers available in the 1960s. Kao’s enthusiasm inspired other researchers to share his vision of the future potential of fiber optics. The first ultrapure fiber was successfully fabricated just four years later, in 1970. Fiber Optic research actually was pioneered as early as the 1800’s and progressed over the years to the 1920’s  when engineered by tv and radio pioneers. The technology was first widely used for medical examinations. In 1963, the first suggestion of use for communications was made but it was Charles...