Early Life:
– Born in White Plains, New York
– Served in the US Navy
– Obtained B.Sc. degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1955
– Earned Ph.D. degree from the University of Chicago in 1959
– Dissertation was only eight pages long
Career:
– Worked at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey from 1959 to 1986
– Led research into novel lasers and semiconductor devices
– Co-invented the Charge-Coupled Device (CCD) in 1969
– Received multiple awards including the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2009
– Member of various prestigious organizations and recipient of several honors
Retirement and Personal Life:
– Sailed around the world for seventeen years after retirement
– Traveled with life partner, Janet
– Gave up sailing in 2003 due to health reasons
– Resides in the Waretown section of Ocean Township, New Jersey
– Received the Progress Medal and Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society in 2015
References:
– Various sources like the Nobel Foundation and University of Chicago
– Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2009
– Winner of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering in 2017
External Links:
– Wikimedia Commons for media related to George E. Smith
– Invention Hall of Fame Biography
– Amateur Radio licensee
– Interview in Czech TV in December 2013
– Profile on Nobelprize.org
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".
George E. Smith | |
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 Smith in 2009 | |
| Born | May 10, 1930 White Plains, New York, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago (PhD 1959) University of Pennsylvania (BA 1955) |
| Known for | Charge-coupled device |
| Awards | Stuart Ballantine Medal (1973) IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award (1974) Draper Prize (2006) Nobel Prize in Physics (2009) Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (2017) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Applied physics |
| Institutions | Bell Labs |
| Thesis | The Anomalous Skin Effect in Bismuth (1959) |
| Doctoral advisor | E.A. Long |
