‘Master of Light,’ Imaging Pioneers Win Physics Nobel

Three scientists whose work hastened the transmission of information and gave birth to digital cameras won this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics.

Charles K. Kao, who worked at Standard Telecommunications Laboratories in Harlow, U.K., and taught at the Chinese University in Hong Kong, will share the 10 million-kronor ($1.4 million) prize with Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith of Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, the Nobel Assembly said today in Stockholm. Kao will get half of the amount while Boyle and Smith split the remainder.