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Father of Fiber Optics Narinder S Kapany conferred Padma Vibhushan posthumously ANI | Updated: Jan 26, 2021 22:57 IST
By Reena Bhardwaj
San Francisco [US], January 26 (ANI): For Dr Narinder Singh Kapany who has been awarded the Padma Vibhushan, India s second-highest civilian award means much more than even the Nobel Prize, according to the kin of the man who is known as the Father of Fiber Optics .
Kapany who passed away in the US last month will be posthumously awarded the prestigious Padma Vibhushan, for his trailblazing work in the field of fiber optics. The second highest Indian civilian award recognized Kapany for his exceptional and distinguished service in the field of science and engineering.
When Narinder S. Kapany was in high school in the 1940s in Dehradun, his science teacher told him that light travels only in straight lines. By then he had already spent years playing around with a box camera, and he knew that light could at least be turned in different directions, through lenses and prisms. Something about the teacher’s attitude, he later said, made him want to go further, to prove him wrong by figuring out how to actually bend light.
By the time he entered graduate school at Imperial College London in 1952, he realised he wasn’t alone. For decades researchers across Europe had been studying ways to transmit light through flexible glass fibres.
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