Charles Kao (born November 4, 1933, Shanghai, China—died September 23, 2018, Hong Kong), physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2009 for discovering how light can be transmitted through fiber-optic cables.
Chaz Kao parents: Who are his father and mother?
Chaz Kao’s grandfather was the father of four sons and two daughters. Kao Chun Hsin, my father, was not the oldest of the sons.
The eldest would have stayed in town to manage the family’s properties and affairs; that’s where those responsibilities always fell. He was the third of three sons. These sons were growing up as China entered the modern era.
After receiving a good education in Shanghai, Chaz Kao’s father went to Michigan Law School for a year. Before he left for the United States, he married a petite lady from one of the social circle’s families. She was abandoned to await the return of her daring husband. The new wife was well-educated and a poet, coming from an equally modern and intellectually accomplished family.
