Rank Prize for Optoelectronics

• London's Haringey Journal Editorial - The Great Divide

• Boffins Honour "Failure" Who Beat The System

• Rank Prize Funds Invitation

• Photograph of Professor D.E.N. Davies, Sir John Davis and Dr. Stuart A. Kingsley at the Royal Society Awards Ceremony

• Rank Prize Certificate

• The Columbus Dispatch - Fiber Optics to be Outlined

• The Royal Society

• Resume

• 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

2002 Rank Prize for Optoelectronics
Have a look at the image of the Rank Prize Certificate in the 2002 Rank Prize announcement that was selected by Optics.org to illustrate a typical certificate, and then compare it with that found at the fifth link above.  I am flattered!