Nobel prize winning American physicist
George Elwood Smith
(born May 10, 1930) is an American scientist, applied
physicist
, and co-inventor of the
charge-coupled device
(CCD). He was awarded a one-quarter share in the 2009
Nobel Prize in Physics
for "the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit?the CCD sensor, which has become an electronic eye in almost all areas of photography".
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Early life
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Smith was born in
White Plains
,
New York
. Smith served in the US Navy, and subsequently obtained his
B.Sc.
degree from the
University of Pennsylvania
in 1955 and his
Ph.D.
degree from the
University of Chicago
in 1959 with a dissertation of only eight pages.
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Career
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He worked at
Bell Labs
in
Murray Hill, New Jersey
from 1959 to his retirement in 1986, where he led research into novel lasers and semiconductor devices. During his tenure, Smith was awarded dozens of patents and eventually headed the
VLSI
device department.
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In 1969, Smith and
Willard Boyle
invented the
Charge-Coupled Device
(CCD),
[5]
for which they have jointly received the
Franklin Institute
's
Stuart Ballantine Medal
in 1973, the 1974
IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award
, the 2006
Charles Stark Draper Prize
, and the 2009
Nobel Prize in Physics
.
Both Boyle and Smith were avid sailors who took many trips together. After retirement Smith sailed around the world with his life partner, Janet, for seventeen years, eventually giving up his hobby in 2003 to "spare his 'creaky bones' from further storms".
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He currently resides in the
Waretown
section of
Ocean Township, Ocean County, New Jersey
.
[6]
In 2015, Smith was awarded the Progress Medal and Honorary Fellowship of the
Royal Photographic Society
. He is a member of
Pi Mu Epsilon
,
Phi Beta Kappa
, and
Sigma Xi
and a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and American Physical Society and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
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In 2017, Smith was announced as one of four winners of the
Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
, for his contribution to the creation of digital imaging sensors.
[8]
References
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https://mypenn.upenn.edu/s/profile/0056g000005KfomAAC
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2009
, Nobel Foundation, 2009-10-06
, retrieved
2009-10-06
.
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THE ANOMALOUS SKIN EFFECT IN BISMUTH
, University of Chicago, 1959-12-06,
ProQuest
301893432
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a
b
PROFILE: George Smith - Nobel winner and world sailor
, EarthTimes, 2009-10-06, archived from
the original
on 2012-09-05
, retrieved
2009-10-06
.
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Smith, George E.
(2009). Karl Grandin (ed.).
Les Prix Nobel. The Nobel Prizes 2009
. Stockholm:
The Nobel Foundation
. Retrieved
22 May
2012
.
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Staff.
"NJ man's discovery lands Nobel Prize"
Archived
2013-12-03 at the
Wayback Machine
,
WPVI-TV
, October 6, 2009. Accessed November 27, 2013. "George E. Smith, 79, holds a display with a photograph of the first video telephone and some early CCD chips at his home in Waretown, N.J., Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009, after it was announced that he had won the Nobel Prize in physics."
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"Dr. George e. Smith"
.
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"2017 QEPrize Winners - Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering"
.
Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
. Retrieved
2017-03-10
.
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