Bookham Technology founder wins top Academy accolade.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-28 May 2002-BOOKHAM TECHNOLOGY: Bookham Technology founder wins top Academy accolade (C)1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:05282002 Dr Andrew Rickman, Chairman of fibre-optic component and subsystems manufacturer Bookham Technology plc, has won a prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal for his outstanding contribution to British engineering.

Dr Rickman (42), founded the company in 1988 to capitalise on the explosion in demand for bandwidth that he anticipated, well before the communication boom really took off. He realised that there was a yawning gap in the market for components that could combine computing power with controlling light signals and set about finding the technology to solve the problem. Working with top...

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