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unusual facts about Charles K. Kao



Charles Armstrong

Charles K. Armstrong, academic, historian, and professor of Korean Studies at Columbia University

Charles Graham

Charles K. Graham (1824–1889), sailor in the antebellum United States Navy, attorney, and brigadier

Charles K. Eastman

He shared Esquire magazine's Best Screenplay of the Year award with Bertolucci's The Spider's Stratagem.

Charles K. Feldman

Feldman held considerable sway in the making of some films, it was Feldman who suggested to Jack Warner (as a friend) that he recut Howard Hawks' The Big Sleep and add scenes to enhance Bacall's performance, which he felt was more-or-less a 'bit part' in the 1945 cut.

Charles K. Harris

His father was a fur trader and moved the family to Saginaw, Michigan and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he grew up.

From his early fascination with the banjo, he wrote his first song "Since Maggie Learned To Skate" for the play The Skating Rink by Nat Goodwin in 1885.

Charles K. Johnson

Originally an airplane mechanic in San Francisco, Johnson took on the running of the Society from Samuel Shenton on the latter's death in 1972, from his base on a ranch near Edwards Air Force Base.

He claimed the Apollo moon landings, and space exploration in general, were faked to lead people away from the truth of the Bible, which, in his opinion, taught that the Earth is flat.

Charles K. Sumner

He received a traveling scholarship to Europe and the Middle East and was hired by McKim, Mead and White in New York, working for Charles Follen McKim.

Charles K. Tuckerman

Tuckerman returned to the United States after his Greek posting, but died in Florence, Italy.

A native of Boston, Massachusetts, Tuckerman was educated at that city's Latin School.

Charles K. Wiggins

He was elected to the court in 2010, defeating incumbent Richard B. Sanders.

Charles K. Williams

Williams died in Rutland on March 9, 1853, and is interred at Evergreen Cemetery in Rutland, Vermont.

Chinese University of Hong Kong

As of 2013, four Nobel Prize winners are associated with the University, including Chen Ning Yang, James Mirrlees, Robert Alexander Mundell and former University President Charles K. Kao.

Home in Indiana

In March 1942, agent Charles K. Feldman planned on making a film adaptation of the Chamberlain novel, with Howard Hawks as a proposed producer.

Standard Telecommunication Laboratories

It is now recognised as the birthplace of optical fibre communications, for it is here that Sir Charles K. Kao, George Hockham and others pioneered the use of single-mode optical fibre made from low loss glass.

Valentine S. McClatchy

Former Editor of The Sacramento Bee, now The McClatchy Company, Valentine S. McClatchy was also the co-owner of the company with his brother Charles K. McClatchy.


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