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Kao Kun, a world famous physicist, was born in Jinshan County, Jiangsu province (now Jinshan District, Shanghai) in 1933. She moved to Hongkong in 1948 and went to Britain to study. She obtained a Bachelor of science and PhD in University of London.

From 1987 to 1996, he became president of Chinese University Hong Kong.

He was elected foreign academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1996.

In 1966, the basic theory of optical communication was published. This theory was widely used in 90s, and has created the great development of Internet today. It is known as "the father of optical fiber".

In October 6, 2009, Gao Kun was awarded the 2009 Nobel prize in physics for his breakthrough achievements in "pmission of light in fiber for optical communications".

Originating from Chinese culture

In the near future of China's opening up in 2010, World Expo, Shanghai, we are delighted to receive the congratulatory message written by Gao Kun from the United States, known as "the father of the optical fiber", from the United States. He congratulated herself on the success of Shanghai and World Expo.

Kao Kun, the only Nobel prize winner in Shanghai, China, has never forgotten her birthplace, Shanghai. When Shanghai wants to hold the world's most advanced grand exhibition to promote science and culture, he will excitedly and sincerely convey his warm congratulations from the other side of the globe through his inventions of optical fiber, because this is a great great joy.

Kao has been in poor health in recent years. He is very sorry to have mild Alzheimer's disease.

It is gratifying to note that now he has written the Chinese characters with a very serious and respectful way out of his own initiative.

The Chinese character itself embodies a unique function of human brain wisdom, which together with the brush contains Chinese unique philosophical thinking of hardness and softness.

According to Mrs. Kao Kun Huang Meiyun, Gao Kao never wrote with a brush since he left the mainland for 62 years. In order to gradually restore his memory, they specially invited a teacher who taught Chinese calligraphy to teach him to practice calligraphy and calligraphy every day in the US, in order to restore memory as a supplement.

This is really a wonderful move. People wish him and believe that his perseverance will bring unexpected gains as he invented the optical fiber.

{page_break} Kao received excellent family education from an early age.

In his childhood, he studied in a primary school run by a society, and he always asked another tutor who was specially taught Chinese traditional culture. (he was the same family teacher as the writer of this paper. Later he was Professor Gu Cheng Cheng of the Chinese Department of East China Normal University in Shanghai), whose teaching content was centered on the cultivation of morality, including calligraphy.

This basic education undoubtedly plays a role in the life gene of Gao Kun.

Today, Kao Kun, who is very young and ill, writes Chinese characters in a very solemn and surprising way. He fully demonstrates his love and appreciation of Chinese traditional culture from childhood.

At the same time, it shows his importance and rigour in basic education and learning.

Kao, as an outstanding scientific inventor and a cultural educator by example, has always believed that science is without borders and stateless. Culture is pluralistic, and it can be interlinked and inspired each other.

Optical fiber belongs to the great invention of human physics, and Chinese characters and calligraphy are also great inventions of human culture. As early as in the early 1990s, An Zijie, a famous social activist in Hongkong, first put forward that Chinese characters are the oldest and still alive great invention of mankind. At that time, Gao Kun became president of Chinese University Hong Kong and agreed with his view.

One belongs to the natural physical science, one belongs to the social humanities, and the two are shining together to benefit mankind.

Therefore, Gao Kun's love for Chinese characters is undoubtedly based on this profound origin, and its significance is indeed thought-provoking.

World Expo, which is to be held in Shanghai, China, has displayed various human innovation initiatives. It has displayed the world essence, the wisdom of the times and the global information, and has implemented the full coverage of optical fiber one hundred percent in the Expo area of 5.28 square kilometers.

Chinese President Hu Jintao proposed that the Chinese exhibition area should be dominated by Chinese elements, while China's 5000 years old Chinese character is undoubtedly one of the oldest cultural elements in China.

We will expand the perspective of contemporary Chinese optical fiber scientific inventors, the latest Nobel Prize laureate Kao Kun's Chinese calligraphy congratulations, and reveal their profound and contemporary values, which will undoubtedly become a permanent flash point of this long historical World Expo.