Transcript: Fiber Optics, Imaging Pioneers Win Physics Nobel

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MICHELE NORRIS
NPR All Things Considered
10-06-2009
Fiber Optics, Imaging Pioneers Win Physics Nobel

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Some years, reporting the Nobel Prize in Physics means explaining some pretty unfamiliar stuff: quarks, broken symmetry, magnetoresistance. Well, not so this year. With today's Nobel Prizes, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is celebrating tangible discoveries, things you use every day. One scientist is honored for inventing fiber optic communications. And two others got the nod for inventing the ...

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