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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
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Top works
- The Do's & Don'ts of Parenting
- Agricultural Practices and Water Quality
- Red Treasure
- Gold, Silver, and Guns
- Rejected because of family connections
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Listeners · Last.fm
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- 14
- Total plays
- 46
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A short history of<i>SHELX</i>
· 2007 · cited 79,952x
- Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test
· 1997 · cited 48,640x
- Colorimetric Method for Determination of Sugars and Related Substances
· 1956 · cited 42,300x
- Crystal structure refinement with<i>SHELXL</i>
· 2015 · cited 40,912x
- 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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- Smith
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- White Plains
- Place of death
- Barnegat Township
- Occupation
- inventor
- Educated at
- University of Pennsylvania
- Employer
- Bell Labs
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- charge-coupled device
- Image
- Nobel Prize 2009-Press Conference KVA-27.jpg
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- George E. Smith
- date of birth
- 1930-05-10
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- 9
- member of
- American Physical Society
- name in native language
- George Elwood Smith
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- George Smith
- date of death
- 2025-05-28
- interested in
- physics
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