Congratulations to Professor Charles Kao, Nobel Laureate in Physics 2009


	A Short Biography of Professor Kao
	1933	Born in Shanghai on 4 November
	1957, 1965	Awarded the degrees of BSc and PhD from the University of London
	1966	Published a paper which proposed using glass fibres as a conductor for optic communication, ushering in the era of optic fibre communication
	1970	Joined CUHK as Reader and chair of the then new Department of Electronics, later appointed as the first Professor of Electronics
	1985	Conferred the degree of Doctor of Science, honoris causa, by CUHK
	1987	Became Vice-Chancellor of CUHK
	1996	Retired in July from vice-chancellorship and appointed as Honorary Professor of Engineering A minor planet (3463) was named after him as ‘Kaokuen’ by the Purple Mountain Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
	2009	Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences