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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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  1. A short history of<i>SHELX</i>

    · 2007 · cited 79,649x

  2. Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test

    · 1997 · cited 47,734x

  3. Colorimetric Method for Determination of Sugars and Related Substances

    · 1956 · cited 41,871x

  4. Crystal structure refinement with<i>SHELXL</i>

    · 2015 · cited 40,002x

  5. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

    · 2020 · cited 34,574x

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George E. Smith
date of birth
1930-05-10
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George Elwood Smith
date of death
2025-05-28
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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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