Charles Kao, Willard Boyle, and George Smith will share this year's Nobel Prize for physics. UK-based Kao is lauded for his work in helping to develop fibre optic cables, the slender tubes that carry data, such as telephone calls.<br/><br/>Boyle and Smith, who work out of the US, are recognized for their part in the invention of the charged coupled device, or CCD. <br/><br/>