Famous PHYSICIST, financial specialist and Sikh lobbyist Narinder Singh Kapany died on Friday. He was 94.Born in Punjab’s Moga, Kapany, who had been living in the US, was known as the ‘father of fiber optics’ and had in excess of 100 licenses in his name.
Kapany was the first to send pictures through fiber optics in 1954 and established the framework for rapid web innovation. He established fiber optics, yet in addition utilized his own innovation for the business.
He established the Optics Technology Incorporation and Kaptron Incorporation in 1960 and 1973 individually.
Kapany learned at Agra University and afterward moved to Imperial College in London. He got his PhD from the University of London in 1955.
Aside from fiber optics, he worked in fields of lasers, biomedical instrumentation, sun oriented energy and contamination checking.
He got ‘The Excellence 2000 Award’ from the USA Pan-Asian American Chamber of Commerce in 1998, an individual of various logical social orders including the British Royal Academy of Engineering, the Optical Society of America, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Kapany was likewise an instructor of material science at Stanford University, University of California in various limits. He distributed more than 100 logical papers and four books on optoelectronics and business venture.
The physicist was additionally a Sikh extremist and attempted to save Sikh legacy. On December 29, 1967, he and his significant other Satinder Kaur established the Sikh Foundation in California, with the mission to save and advance Sikh legacy and its 50th commemoration was praised in 2017.
Occasions of 1984 had pained Kapany and he had likewise begun distributing papers in the US to clarify the occasions occurring in India.
He was named among the seven “Uncelebrated Yet truly great individuals” of the twentieth century who influenced the lives of individuals everywhere on the world by Fortune in their ‘Money managers of the Century’ issue of November 22, 1999.
It will likewise stay a questionable issue of why Kapany couldn’t get the Nobel prize. The Nobel prize for fiber optics went to Charles Kao, who assumed a significant part in creating how to continue light through glass filaments for a significant distance. Simultaneously, it was Kapany who previously showed effectively that light can be sent through twisted glass filaments during his doctoral work at the Imperial College of Science in London in the mid-fifties and distributed the discoveries in a paper in Nature in 1954.
