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George E. Smith

Nobel prize winning American physicist

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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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Born
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Place of birth
White Plains wd
Died
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Place of death
Barnegat Township wd
Citizenship
United States wd
Occupation
physicist, photographer, scientist, inventor wd
Education
University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania wd

Awards wd

  • Nobel Prize in Physics (2009)
  • Stuart Ballantine Medal (1973)
  • National Inventors Hall of Fame (2006)
  • Charles Stark Draper Prize (2006)
  • IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award (1974)
  • Edwin H. Land Medal (2001)
  • Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (2017)

Questions

When was George E. Smith born?
George E. Smith was born on 10 May 1930 in White Plains.
Where did George E. Smith study?
George E. Smith was educated at University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania.

Sources

  1. Wikipedia (English): George E. Smith · CC BY-SA 4.0
  2. Wikidata item Q76373 · CC0 1.0
  3. Image: Nobel Prize 2009-Press Conference KVA-27.jpg by Prolineserver ( talk ) (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Last updated · facts checked 7 November 2026

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