<Tr> <Th> Fields </Th> <Td> Physics </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Institutions </Th> <Td> Agra University Ordnance Factories Board Imperial College of Science British Royal Academy of Engineering Optical Society of America American Association for the Advancement of Science Professor at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB) University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) Stanford University </Td> </Tr> <P> Narinder Singh Kapany (Punjabi: ਨਰਿੰਦਰ ਸਿੰਘ) (born 31 October 1926) is an Indian - born American physicist known for his work in fibre optics . He was named as one of the seven' Unsung Heroes' by Fortune in their' Businessmen of the Century' issue (1999 - 11 - 22). He is also known as "Father of Fiber Optics". The term fibre optics was coined by Singh Kapany in 1956 . He is a former IOFS officer . </P> <P> Kapany was born to a Sikh family in Moga, Punjab, and studied at Agra University . He served briefly as an Indian Ordnance Factories Service officer, before going to Imperial College London in 1952 to work on a Ph. D. degree in optics, which he obtained in 1955 . </P>

Who is known as the father of fibre optics