Narinder Singh Kapany, 'father of fiber optics,' dies at 94
Narinder Singh Kapany was a physicist and entrepreneur who cut an imposing figure Published: January 10, 2021 09:15 NYT Dr Narinder Singh Kapany, photo provided by the Sikh foundation. Image Credit: The New York Times When Narinder S. Kapany was in high school in the 1940s in Dehradun, an Indian city in the Himalayan foothills, his science teacher told him that light travels only in straight lines. By then he had already spent years playing around with a box camera, and he knew that light could at least be turned in different ...