George E. Smith

George Elwood Smith (May 10, 1930 – May 28, 2025) was an American scientist and applied physicist. He is known for being the co-inventor of the charge-coupled device (CCD).

He was awarded a one-quarter share in the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics with Willard Boyle for "the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit—the CCD sensor, which has become an electronic eye in almost all areas of photography"..

Smith died on May 28, 2025, at his home in Barnegat Township, New Jersey, at the age of 95.

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Invention Hall of Fame Biography 
Amateur Radio licensee
Interview in Czech TV December 2013  

Category:1939 births
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