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In Memoriam: Narinder S. Kapany, 1926-2020
04 December 2020
Narinder S. Kapany, OSA Fellow and pioneer in the development of fiber optics, passed away on 4 December 2020 at the age of 94. Kapany was a physicist and entrepreneur who was known as the “Father of Fiber Optics” for his work to demonstrate the transmission of images through optical fiber bundles. Kapany collaborated with Professor Harold Hopkins at Imperial College London and their research was published in Nature in 1954. In addition to his research contributions, Kapany was known for his enthusiastic promotion of fiber optic technology, devoting time to demonstrate its benefits and potential to academic, corporate, and government leaders.
Kapany was born on 31 October 1926 in Moga, India, and earned his undergraduate degree from Agra University. He moved to London and did graduate research in optics at the Imperial College London. He received his doctorate in 1955 and joined the faculty of the University of Rochester that same year. In 1960, Kapany started his first business, Optics Technolo
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Story:
I was born in 1926 to Sardar Sunder Singh and Kundan Kaur in my mother’s village of Moga in Punjab. I grew up in Dehradun, where I attended Presbyterian School until college. In 1951 I went to England for a Ph.D. in the field of solid state physics, where I coined the term “fiber optics,” for a phenomenon I discovered that entailed “bending light” using specially developed “optical fibers.” The researcher who built on my work to develop technology for long distance communications won the Nobel Prize for fiber optics.
In 1947, I was 18 or 19 years old, and I recall a lecture Jawaharlal Nehru gave on Independence Day and the exciting things he said. Everybody believed that when the British would leave, everything would be wonderful. Nehru talked about the origin of the Indian Independence Movement, with compliments to Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.
I met Gandhi once when I was 18 or 19 years old. I was over six feet tall and I recall Gandhi being much shorter as he stood next to me. That doesn’t take anything from his greatness, however! This was around the time of Pa
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Narinder Singh Kapany
Indian physicist
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Narinder Singh Kapany (31 October 1926 – 4 December 2020) was an Indian-Americanphysicist famously known as "Father of Fiber Optics" .[2][3][4] Kapany is a pioneer in the field of fiber optics, known for coining and popularising the term.[5][6]Fortune named him one of seven "Unsung Heroes of the 20th Century" for his Nobel Prize-deserving invention.[7][3][8] He was awarded India's second highest civilian award, the Padma Vibhushan, posthumously in 2021.[9][10] He served as an Indian Ordnance Factories Service (IOFS) officer.[11] He was also offered the post of Scientific Adviser to the Defence Minister of India, by the first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru.[12]
Early life and research
Kapany was born on 31 October 1926, in Moga, Punjab to Sundar Singh and Kundan Kaur. He was from a SikhKhatri family of Sodh
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