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George E. Smith

George E. Smith
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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. Akira SuzukiSeptember 12, 1930 – present
  2. George E. Smith (this page)May 10, 1930 – May 28, 2025
  3. Jerome Isaac FriedmanMarch 28, 1930 – present
  4. Stanley MillerMarch 7, 1930 – May 20, 2007
  5. William C. CampbellJune 28, 1930 – present
  6. Yves ChauvinOctober 10, 1930 – January 27, 2015

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