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Narinder Singh Kapany

Co-author of the 1954 fibrescope letter; later coined the term 'fiber optics' (1960)

Dates: 1926-2020 (source: English Wikipedia entry on Narinder Singh Kapany, as cited in dossier 04 §7.1 (no URL given in the kit) )
Chapters: VIII. Light

What the film says

Worked with Hopkins on the 1954 fibre bundle.

Watch 46:57 in the film VIII. Light

On the timeline

January 1954: Hopkins and Kapany publish their flexible fibrescope in Nature; van Heel publishes in the same issue. timeline
1960: Kapany coins the term 'fiber optics' in Scientific American. timeline

Sources

Sources

Hopkins and Kapany 1954, A Flexible Fibrescope, using Static Scanning, Nature 173:39-41 Primary
English Wikipedia entry on Narinder Singh Kapany, as cited in dossier 04 §7.1 (no URL given in the kit) Secondary