Narinder Singh Kapany was born at Moga in 1926. He was told at school that light travels in straight lines and decided to prove otherwise.
He worked at Imperial College London in the early 1950s on transmitting images through bundles of glass fibres, coined the term fibre optics in a 1960 Scientific American article, and spent his career building companies around optical technology in California.
He was widely described as the father of fibre optics. The 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for fibre optic communication went to Charles Kao and not to him, which was noted at the time.
He also assembled one of the world's most important private collections of Sikh art, endowed chairs in Sikh studies at Berkeley, Santa Barbara and elsewhere, funded the Sikh gallery at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, and lent works for the 1999 exhibition The Arts of the Sikh Kingdoms at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
The technology carrying the sentence you are reading was worked out by a man from Moga, who then spent the money on making Punjab's art visible outside Punjab.
He did the work in London in the 1950s that established that light could be carried along a bent glass fibre with acceptable loss, and he coined the term fibre optics.
He founded companies in California, held over a hundred patents, and taught at Berkeley and Santa Cruz.
He founded the Sikh Foundation in 1967, decades before Sikh studies existed as a field in any western university, and its publishing and exhibition programme is how a good deal of that field got started.