The Charge-coupled device (CCD) was invented in 1969 by Willard Boyle and George E. Smith, for which they were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2009.
* В 1969 Уиллард Бойл и Джордж Смит изобрели прибор с зарядовой связью (Нобелевская премия по физике 2009 года).