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George E. Smith Dead: Nobel Prize Winner Was 95

Together with Willard S. Boyle, he invented an imaging device that is an essential part of nearly every telescope, photocopier and digital camera used today.

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George E. Smith in 2009, after it was announced that he and Willard S. Boyle had won the Nobel Prize in Physics for what is known as the charge-coupled device, or CCD.
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