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Date	Activity	Begins At	Event Fees	Meeting Point
14 July, Sunday	COLONIAL WALK 1 : WRITER'S BUILDING, GPO ( GENERAL POST OFFICE ), ST.JOHN'S CHURCH, LAL BAJAR, RAJ BHAVAN, HIGH COURT	8:00 AM	1	3000	In front of Bow Bazaar Police Station
2	1500
4	750
6+	500
21 July, Sunday	ELIJAH ROUTE: MOTHER TERESA HOUSE, SOUTH PARK STREET CEMETERY, PARK STREET, INDIAN MUSEUM, NEW MARKET, SUDDER STREET	8:00 AM	1	3000	In front of Mother Teresa House
2	1500
4	750
6+	500
28 July, Sunday	MINDFULNESS WITH MOVEMENTS- AN UNIQUE HEALING SESSION THROUGH DANCE - WITH ANGIRRA CHAKRAVARTY	10:30 AM	500 per person	In front of Anandamela, Gariahat

The inventor of Fiber Optics
Who discovered Fiber Optics? An Indian- Dr. Narinder Singh Kapany. He is an Indian born American physicist whose invention of fiber optics made more than half a century ago revolutionized the way information is transmitted and communicated today. An optical fiber is a slender glass fiber thinner than human hair and flexible and transparent. It can carry signals over long distances. It also makes signal immune to electromagnetic interference and increases transmission rate to nearly the speed of light. According to Joseph Kahn, leading specialist in optical fiber communication from Stanford, the internet couldn’t exist in its present form without fiber optics. The Fortune magazine named him “The unsung hero” in their November 1999 issue called the Businessman of the century. Dr. Kapany is also known as the Father of Fiber Optics for his priceless contribution to the technology. Born in Moga in Punjab, he studied at Agra University; served at IOFS (Indian Ordinance Factory Service) before heading for further studies at Imperial College, London. When asked that how did the field of optics interest him, he said, “When I was a high school student at Dehradun in the beautiful foothills of the Himalayas, it occurred to me that light need not travel in a straight line, that it could be bent. I carried the idea to college”. He coined the term Fiber Optics in 1955. Dr. Narinder Singh Kapany earned himself a scholarship to Royal Society for research in fiber optics even before he finished his course at Imperial College, London. He was also offered to be the Scientific Advisor to the Ministry of Defense of India by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. However, life had other plans. In 1954, while presenting his first publication on fiber optics in a conference in Italy, he was given an opportunity to be a faculty member at the University of Rochester in Unites States. A question strikes hard – are Indian Scientists over looked by the world for their contribution?

The inventor of Fiber Optics

Who discovered Fiber Optics? An Indian- Dr. Narinder Singh Kapany. He is an Indian born American physicist whose invention of fiber optics made more than half a century ago revolutionized the way information is transmitted and communicated today.

An optical fiber is a slender glass fiber thinner than human hair and flexible and transparent. It can carry signals over long distances. It also makes signal immune to electromagnetic interference and increases transmission rate to nearly the speed of light. According to Joseph Kahn, leading specialist in optical fiber communication from Stanford, the internet couldn’t exist in its present form without fiber optics.

The Fortune magazine named him “The unsung hero” in their November 1999 issue called the Businessman of the century. Dr. Kapany is also known as the Father of Fiber Optics for his priceless contribution to the technology.

Born in Moga in Punjab, he studied at Agra University; served at IOFS (Indian Ordinance Factory Service) before heading for further studies at Imperial College, London.

When asked that how did the field of optics interest him, he said, “When I was a high school student at Dehradun in the beautiful foothills of the Himalayas, it occurred to me that light need not travel in a straight line, that it could be bent. I carried the idea to college”. He coined the term Fiber Optics in 1955.

Dr. Narinder Singh Kapany earned himself a scholarship to Royal Society for research in fiber optics even before he finished his course at Imperial College, London. He was also offered to be the Scientific Advisor to the Ministry of Defense of India by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. However, life had other plans. In 1954, while presenting his first publication on fiber optics in a conference in Italy, he was given an opportunity to be a faculty member at the University of Rochester in Unites States.

A question strikes hard – are Indian Scientists over looked by the world for their contribution?

DID YOU KNOW?

The inventor of Fiber Optics

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