George E. Smith
Nobel prize winning American physicist
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United StatesHe co-invented the CCD sensor — the chip that turned light into digital information and made possible everything from smartphone cameras to the Hubble Space Telescope's deepest images of the universe.
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George Elwood Smith was born May 10, 1930. An American applied physicist, he co-invented the charge-coupled device with Willard Boyle — a semiconductor circuit that could capture and convert light into electronic signals. The breakthrough reshaped imaging technology across medicine, astronomy, and consumer electronics. For that work, Smith shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics. He died May 28, 2025.
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