STOCKHOLM: Charles K. Kao, Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith have won this year's Nobel Prize for Physics, it was announced in Stockholm Tuesday.
Kao was cited "for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibres for optical communication" while Boyle and Smith were cited for inventing the CCD sensor, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said.
The physics prize was the second of this year's Nobel Prizes to be announced following the medicine prize announced Monday.