On this day, 92 years ago, on November 4, 1933 (September 17, 1933 in the lunar calendar), Gao Kun, the "father of optical fiber" of Chinese descent, was born. Gao Kun (born November 4, 1933) is a Chinese physicist. He was born in Shanghai, China. His ancestral home was Jinshan, Jiangsu Province (now Jinshan Shanghai City). He has British and American citizenship and holds Hong Kong resident status in China. He currently lives in Hong Kong and Mountain View, California, USA. Gao Kun is an expert in optical fiber communications and electrical engineering. He is known as the "Father of Optical Fiber" by Chinese media and the "Father of Fiber Optical Communications" by the world. He was once the president of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In 2009, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Willard Boyle and George Elwood Smith. Born on November 4, 1933 in Jinshan County, Jiangsu Province, he lived in the French Concession. His father is a lawyer, and his brother is Gao Yan. His grandfather Gao Chuiwan was a famous poet, revolutionary and important member of Nanshe in the late Qing Dynasty. Before entering school, my father hired a teacher to go home and teach Gao Kun and Gao Yan to read the Four Books and Five Classics. At the age of 10, Gao Kun attended Shanghai World School (today's International School) and completed the first year of primary school and junior high school in Shanghai. In addition to reading Chinese, he also read English and French. The school hired scholars who had studied in France to teach, and Gao Kun began to come into contact with the personnel culture outside China. When Gao Kun was a child, he lived in a three-story house, and the third floor became his childhood laboratory. As a child, Gao Kun was very interested in chemistry. He once made fire extinguishers, fireworks, fireworks and photo-drying paper to try to make bombs. The most dangerous one is to mix red phosphorus powder with potassium chlorate, add water and mix it into a paste, then mix it into wet mud, and rub it into pellets. After drying, it was thrown into the street, and an explosion occurred. Fortunately, no passers-by was harmed. Later, he became obsessed with radio again and successfully installed a radio with five or six vacuum tubes. The family moved to Taiwan in 1948. In 1949, he immigrated to Hong Kong again and enrolled in St. Joseph's College. After graduating from high school, he was admitted to the University of Hong Kong. However, since HKU did not have a Department of Electrical Engineering at that time, he went to study at Woolwich Institute of Technology in East London (now the University of Greenwich, UK). In 1957, he graduated from Woolwich Institute of Technology with a major in electronic engineering. In 1965, he received a doctorate in electrical engineering from University College London (UCL), a subsidiary of the University of London.