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George E. Smith

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George E. Smith

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Also known as George Elwood Smith, George Smith

Nobel prize winning American physicist

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George E. Smith was an American physicist, photographer, scientist, and inventor. Born in White Plains in 1930, he was educated at the University of Chicago and the University of Pennsylvania. He worked at Bell Labs and was a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Physical Society. His professional interests included physics, electronic components, image processing, and the history of technology.

Smith received the Nobel Prize in Physics, the Stuart Ballantine Medal, the Charles Stark Draper Prize, and the IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award. He is recognized in the Nobel Laureates and National Inventors Hall of Fame collections. He died in Barnegat Township in 2025.

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Person · Open Library

Works
9

Top works

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
14
Total plays
46

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. A short history of<i>SHELX</i>

    · 2007 · cited 79,952x

  2. Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test

    · 1997 · cited 48,640x

  3. Colorimetric Method for Determination of Sugars and Related Substances

    · 1956 · cited 42,300x

  4. Crystal structure refinement with<i>SHELXL</i>

    · 2015 · cited 40,912x

  5. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

    · 2020 · cited 36,474x

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physics2009

    “for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit - the CCD sensor”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
George
Family name
Smith
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
White Plains
Place of death
Barnegat Township
Occupation
inventor
Educated at
University of Pennsylvania
Employer
Bell Labs
Languages spoken
English language
Award
Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
Field of work
charge-coupled device
Image
Nobel Prize 2009-Press Conference KVA-27.jpg
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Commons category
George E. Smith
date of birth
1930-05-10
Erdős number
9
member of
American Physical Society
name in native language
George Elwood Smith
different from
George Smith
date of death
2025-05-28
interested in
physics
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Encyclopedic overview

George Elwood Smith (May 10, 1930 – May 28, 2025) was an American applied physicist and a co-inventor of the charge-coupled device (CCD). Smith shared one half of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics with Willard Boyle "for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit - the CCD sensor."

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