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George E. Smith

Inventor · born May 10, 1930 · died 2025

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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."

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  1. ~79Received the Nobel Prize in Physics2009

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