File portraits of (from L) Britain's Charles Kao, Willard Boyle and George Smith of the US, winners of the 2009 Physics Nobel Prize winners projected during the announcement at the Royal Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden. Three physicists, two of them American, won the 2009 Nobel Prize for work on fibre optics and light sensing that helped unleash the Information Technology revolution. Photo:Bertil Ericson/AFP