SciShow: The Scientist Who Made the Internet Possible | Great Minds: Narinder Singh Kapany

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Content of the Lesson: Thanks to Qualcomm for sponsoring a portion of this video. Learn more at https://www.qualcomm.com/products/mobile-computing/mobile-pcs The tools and resources the internet provides us have undoubtedly become everyday necessities for a large portion of the world. That technology would not have been possible without the research of an often overlooked scientist named Narinder Singh Kapany, who learned how to bend light. Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Silas Emrys, Charles Copley, Drew Hart, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Lehel Kovacs, Adam Brainard, Greg, GrowingViolet, Ash, Laura Sanborn, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.nature.com/articles/173039b0 https://www.osapublishing.org/josa/abstract.cfm?uri=josa-49-8-779 https://www.osapublishing.org/josa/abstract.cfm?uri=josa-47-12-1109 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fiber-optics/ https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2018/06/advanced-physicsprize2009.pdf http://news.rediff.com/report/2009/oct/08/how-india-missed-another-nobel-prize.htm https://news.ucsc.edu/2020/12/narinder-kapany-in-memoriam.html http://www.sikhfoundation.org/dr-narinder-s-kapany-120320/ https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/diaspora/father-of-fibre-optics-and-patron-of-sikh-arts-narinder-singh-kapany-dies-at-94-179849 https://web.archive.org/web/20100613143724/http://www.sff.net/people/Jeff.Hecht/history.html https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781444354577.ch3 https://www.quora.com/How-does-information-travel-in-fibre-optic-cables https://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/11/22/269122/index.htm https://www.atlantech.net/blog/bandwidth-fiber-vs-copper-which-is-the-clear-winner https://aip.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1063/1.1653255 https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/25/asia/internet-undersea-cables-intl-hnk/index.html Image Sources: https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/mature-lady-having-video-chat-with-female-business-partner-bho_o-kcwkhudrgsw https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_National_Inventors_Council,_1966.jpg https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/fiber-optics-background-gm1269672263-372914102 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/map-of-india-gm530825318-93548255 https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/rising-colorful-light-beams-and-streaks-seamless-motion-loop-full-hd-1920x1080-magenta-pink-swwd9zr9xj01k3scj https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/imperial-college-london-gm1030098004-276003502 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/Gastroscopio.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=gastroscope&title=Special%3ASearch&go=Go&ns0=1&ns6=1&ns12=1&ns14=1&ns100=1&ns106=1#/media/File:How's_your_stomach?_Washington,_D.C.,_Sept._8._Dr._Fred_A._J._Geier,_member_of_the_faculty_of_Georgetown_University_Medical_School,_looks_thru_the_gastroscope,_a_newly_designed_instrument_by_LCCN2016872308.jpg https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/fiber-optics-abstract-background-purple-blue-data-internet-technology-cable-gm1173891823-326235509 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_K._Kao_and_John_Fleming_2004.jpg https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/math-physics-formulas-gm838557436-136518763 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/black-strings-with-green-glowing-heads-suitable-for-technology-internet-and-computer-gm1191676934-338295093 https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/open-door---3d-animation-on-green-screen-sjvnlalilk7yo1vno https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/cloud-computing-internet-of-things-iot-connected-storage-device-network-r1n3mrpddkgts5u3n https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/light-background-gm180746711-24872906


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