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: American applied physicist (1930–2025)
Biography
George Elwood Smith was an American applied physicist and a co-inventor of the charge-coupled device (CCD). Smith shared one half of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics with Willard Boyle "for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit - the CCD sensor."