The Nobel Prize in Physics 2009
Awarded on: 2009-10-06
"for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit - the CCD sensor"
Affiliations:
- Bell Laboratories – Murray Hill, NJ, USA
George E. Smith
Born: 1930-05-10 in White Plains, NY, USA
Gender: male
Field: Nobel prize winning American physicist
Biography
George Elwood Smith is an American scientist, applied physicist, and co-inventor of the charge-coupled device (CCD). He was awarded a one-quarter share in the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for "the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit—the CCD sensor, which has become an electronic eye in almost all areas of photography".