George E. Smith
Also known as George Elwood Smith, George Smith
Nobel prize winning American physicist
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George E. Smith is an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize for his contributions to physics. His work has been recognized as significant enough to receive one of the world's most prestigious scientific awards.
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George Elwood Smith (May 10, 1930 – May 28, 2025) 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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1930 births2025 deaths21st-century American physicistsAmerican Nobel laureatesDraper Prize winnersHistory of electronic engineeringMembers of the United States National Academy of EngineeringNobel laureates in PhysicsPeople from Ocean Township, Ocean County, New JerseyScientists at Bell LabsUniversity of Chicago alumniUniversity of Pennsylvania alumni