answers: Narinder Singh Kapany
context: spectacle maker, Hans Lippershey, and claims it was invented by expatriate Cornelis Drebbel who was noted to have a version in London in 1619. Galileo Galilei (also sometimes cited as a compound microscope inventor) seems to have found after 1609 that he could close focus his telescope to view small objects and, after seeing a compound microscope built by Drebbel exhibited in Rome in 1624, built his own improved version. The name "microscope" was coined by Giovanni Faber, who gave that name to Galileo Galilei's compound microscope in 1625. Light is made up of particles called photons and hence inherently </s> Narinder Singh Kapany Narinder Singh Kapany () (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. 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 </s> Ibn al-Haytham Hasan Ibn al-Haytham (Latinized Alhazen ; full name "" ; ) was an Arab mathematician, astronomer, and physicist of the Islamic Golden Age. Sometimes called "the father of modern optics", he made significant contributions to the principles of optics and visual perception in particular, his most influential work being his "Kitāb al-Manāẓir" (كتاب المناظر, "Book of Optics"), written during 1011–1021, which survived in the Latin edition. A polymath, he also wrote on philosophy, theology and medicine. Ibn al-Haytham was the first to explain that vision occurs when light bounces on an object and then is directed to one's
question: who is known as the father of fibre optics