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Renowned Indian-American Physicist Narinder Singh Kapany honoured with Padma Vibhushan
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Renowned Indian-American Physicist Narinder Singh Kapany honoured with Padma Vibhushan

Renowned Indian-American Physicist Narinder Singh Kapany also called the 'Father of fiber optics' has been honoured with the Padma Vibhushan this year. Kapany passed away in December 2020 at the age of 94 in Woodside, California. Born in 1926 in Punjab’s Moga, Kapany completed his schooling in Dehradun and went on to graduate from Agra University. In 1952 he went to Imperial College in London to work on a Ph.D. degree in optics which he obtained in 1955. At Imperial College, Kapany worked with British Physicist Harold Hopkins on transmission through fibres. They achieved good image transmission through a large bundle of optical fibres for the first time in 1953. This, combined with the almost-simultaneous development of optical cladding by Dutch scientist Bram van Heel, helped j...