The cause of death of Charles K. Kao is not specified in the obituary notice released by his Hongkong based foundation. Learn more about him.
Google paid tribute to Charles K. Kao’s contribution today on the occasion of his 88th birthday. They developed an animated Doodle which depicts him, the father of fiber optics.
They used a green fiber laser to transmit data from one end of the Doodle to the other which portrays his contribution in the field of science.
Charles K. Kao Cause of Death: Obituary
Charles K Kao’s cause of death was not mentioned in his obituary notice. However, he is said to have been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2002. He died on September 23, 2018, in Hongkong at the age of 84.
He was born on November 4, 1933, in Shanghai. He studied Chinese, English, and French before his family moved to Taiwan and eventually to British Hongkong in 1948.
He completed his secondary school at St. Joseph’s College in 1952. He obtained a bachelor’s degree in Engineering from Woolwich Polytechnic which is now called the University of Greenwich.
He did not stop there and continued his studies. He received Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 1965 from the University of London while working at Standard Telecommunications Laborarities.
It was there where he first worked as an engineer and developed his career further which eventually landed him receiving the prestigious Nobel Prize In Physics.
Details About Charles K Kao Wife May-Wan Kao
Charles K Kao’s wife May-Wan Kao is also an engineer who worked at Standard Telephones and communication. The pair met there for the first time after Charles graduated from the Univeristy of London.
She is a British Chinese. The couple tied the knot in 1959 and had two children. They are the parents of one daughter and a son.
According to his Wikipedia, both of their children reside in Silicon Valley, California. In addition, in his autobiography, he mentioned that he was a Catholic who attended Catholic Church whereas his wife attended Anglian Communion.
Charles K. Kao Family Full Of Talents
Charles K. Kao comes from a family full of talented people. His father Kao Chun-Hsiang was a lawyer and a professor at Soochow University Comparative Law School of China.
His grandfather, Gao Xie, was a scholar, poet, artist, and one of the popular figures of South Society during the Qing dynasty.
Similarly, his younger brother, Timothy Wu Kao, is a civil engineer and a Professor Emeritus at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.