Charles Kao of China and two Americans won the physics prize

China network October 6, according to the official website of the Nobel Foundation, the Nobel Prize Committee of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that The 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Charles K. Kao of Hong Kong, China, and two American scientists, Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith. Scientist Charles K. Kao was honored "for his pioneering achievements in the transmission of light in optical communications," and scientists Boyle and George E-Smith were honored "for the invention of the imaging semiconductor circuit, the charge coupling device image sensor CCD."

Gao Kun was born in 1933 in Shanghai, China. He currently works at Standard Telecommunications Laboratories in the UK and the Chinese University of Hong Kong in China. Boyle and George E. Smith were born in 1924 and 1930, respectively, and both scientists worked and researched at Bell Laboratories in the United States. Scientist Gao Kun will receive half of the prize money, and Boyle and George-e-Smith will share the remaining half.

This year, as in previous years, each Nobel Prize is worth 10 million Swedish kronor (about $1.4 million). According to tradition, the 2009 Nobel Prize ceremony will still be held on December 10 this year, the anniversary of Nobel's death. In addition to the Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo, the prizes in Physiology or medicine, physics, chemistry, literature and economics will all be held in Stockholm, Sweden.

The Nobel Prize was established in 1901 by the will of Alfred Bernhard Nobel, the famous Swedish chemist and inventor of nitroglycerine explosive, with part of his estate as a fund. The Nobel Prize includes a gold medal, a certificate and a check. Nobel devoted his life to the research of explosives, because of the invention of nitroglycerin detonator, nitroglycerin solid explosives and colloid-like explosives, known as the "king of explosives." He is engaged not only in theoretical research but also in industrial practice. During his lifetime, he obtained 355 patents for technical inventions, and opened about 100 companies and factories in 20 countries on five continents including Europe and the United States, accumulating a huge fortune. In accordance with Nobel's will, the prizes in physics and Chemistry were awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.