George E. Smith
George Elwood Smith (born May 10, 1930) 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".
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| Born | May 10, 1930 White Plains, New York, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago (PhD 1959) University of Pennsylvania (BA 1955) |
| Known for | Charge-coupled device |
| Awards | Stuart Ballantine Medal (1973) IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award (1974) Draper Prize (2006) Nobel Prize in Physics (2009) Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (2017) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Applied physics |
| Institutions | Bell Labs |
| Thesis | The Anomalous Skin Effect in Bismuth (1959) |
| Doctoral advisor | E.A. Long |
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