Transcript: Pioneers Of Fiber Optics, Semiconductors Win Nobel

STEVE INSKEEP
NPR Morning Edition
10-06-2009
Pioneers Of Fiber Optics, Semiconductors Win Nobel

Host: STEVE INSKEEP
Time 10:00-11:00 AM


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STEVE INSKEEP, host:

This year's Nobel Prize in Physics goes to three men who developed revolutionary technologies that we can now take for granted.

NPR's Richard Harris is following the announcements coming out of Stockholm this morning. He's in our studios here in Washington.

Richard, good morning.

RICHARD HARRIS: Good morning, Steve.

INSKEEP: And he's with us live. Okay, half this prize goes to a man who figured out how to make fiber optic cables, which carry phone calls and all kinds of other data.

Who is this man?

HARRIS: His name is ...

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