George E. Smith

✶May 10, 1930

†May 28, 2025

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About their life

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."

Nobel prize winning American physicist

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