Willard S. Boyle (left) and George E. Smith, seen here in this handout photo, of Bell Labs invented charged-coupled devices (CCD's) which has the potential of replacing highly complex integrated circuits in imaging, logic, and memory applications. They are demonstrating an experimental TV camera that contains a CCD substitute for the vacuum tube of a conventional& TV camera. Willard S. Boyle & George E. Smith were each awarded one quarter of The Nobel Prize in Physics 2009 "for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit & the CCD sensor." Photo Credit: Alcatel.
George E Smith helped invent a device that changed everything from photography to astronomy: the CCD sensor. Smith, co-inventer of the CCD sensor, Nobel Prize winner, National Inventors Hall of Fame inductee and US Navy veteran has died aged 95.
