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Narinder Singh Kapany (31 October 1926 – 4 December 2020) was an Indian-American physicist best known for his work on fiber optics. [2] [3] [4] Kapany is a pioneer in the field of fiber optics, known for coining and popularising the term.
Jan 7, 2021 · Narinder S. Kapany in a laboratory at Imperial College London in 1955. The work he did there with his fellow scientist Harold Hopkins marked the birth of the now-ubiquitous communications...
Dec 10, 2020 · Narinder Singh Kapany, a pioneering scientist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist who served as a Regents Professor at UC Santa Cruz and a trustee of the UC Santa Cruz Foundation, died on Thursday, December 3, at age 94. Often described as the ‘father of fiber optics,’ Kapany introduced the term in a 1960 article in Scientific American, wrote ...
Apr 21, 2021 · In memory of Narinder Singh Kapany. Kamal P. Singh. Nature Photonics 15 , 403–404 ( 2021) Cite this article. 4633 Accesses. 2 Citations. 23 Altmetric. Metrics. The Indian scientist and...
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Apr 9, 2011 · 76K views 12 years ago. Dr. Narinder Singh Kapany (1926-2020) talks about being the first Indian entrepreneur to start a high-tech business in Silicon Valley. This is a segment from the...
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1926 - 2020. Dr. Narinder Singh Kapany, widely known as the father of fiber optics, passed away peacefully in Woodside, California on December 3rd, 2020. In 1953, working alongside Harold Hopkins at Imperial College London, Dr. Kapany was the first to successfully transmit high quality images through fiber bundles.
Oct 31, 2021 · A Popular Mechanics’ September 1955 article describes the ‘Fibrescope’, developed by “Dr HH Hopkins and a 27-year-old Punjabi, Dr Narinder Singh Kapany”. The affection he has for this ...
