Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

Identify this Indian in IT: He is the father of fiber optics, the man that Fortune magazine named as one of the seven ‘Unsung Heroes’ in its ‘Businessmen of the Century’ issue. Born in India, educated in England and working in the US for the past many decades, he invented fiber optics – “the wonder material” – in 1954. That’s the technology that is now used for endoscopy devices to high-capacity telephone lines and has changed the medical, communication and business worlds. Who is he?

  1. Dr. Narinder Singh Kapany

  2. Dr. Nirvikar Singh

  3. Dr.Jhon Vincent Attanasoff

  4. Dr. Arjun Nayak

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Dr. Narinder Singh Kapany, born in India in 1926, is widely recognized as the 'father of fiber optics' for his pioneering research in the 1950s. He was named one of Fortune's seven 'Unsung Heroes' and his work revolutionized medical and communications technology.