London's Haringey Journal Editorial - The Great Divide

• The Nobel Prize in Physics 2009

• Charles Kao, Communication Pioneer and First Recipient of the Rank Prize (1978) for Fiber Optics, wins 2009 Nobel Physics Prize.  See also http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/internet/optical-fiber-pioneer-shares-physics-nobel

• Charles Kao's 1966 Proc IEE paper that started the fibre-optics revolution

• Boffins Honour "Failure" Who Beat The System