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George Elwood Smith 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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science · American physicist (1930–2025) · physicist · photographer · scientist · inventor · also George E. Smith, George Elwood Smith, George Smith, Smith
Born 10 May 1930 · Died 28 May 2025 · Q76373
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He entered the House not on the crest of a wave, but rather by means of an opportune dive. Everyone in the House must appreciate his presence, for there could be no greater compliment paid to it than that he should be in our midst, when his heart is far away. And it should be obvious to all who know the honourable gentleman
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for the phage display of peptides and antibodies.
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“He entered the House not on the crest of a wave, but rather by means of an opportune dive. Everyone in the House must appreciate his presence, for there could be no greater compliment paid to it than that he should be in our midst, when his heart is far away. And it should be obvious to all who know the honourable gentleman”
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The New York Times: George E. Smith, Nobel Winner Who Created a Digital Eye, Dies at 95
Died 2025-05-28.
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Published “Array programming with NumPy” in Nature — cited 23,655 times.
Published “SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python” in Nature Methods — cited 36,806 times.
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for the phage display of peptides and antibodies.
Awarded Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (2017).
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Published “GROMACS: High performance molecular simulations through multi-level parallelism from laptops to supercomputers” in SoftwareX — cited 25,541 times.
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit - the CCD sensor.
Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (2009).
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Awarded Charles Stark Draper Prize (2006).
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Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (2006).
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To "spare his 'creaky bones' from further storms"
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Published “Geant4—a simulation toolkit” in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment — cited 21,347 times.
Won Edwin H. Land Medal (2001).
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Published “Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test” in BMJ — cited 48,799 times.
Smith worked at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, where he led research into novel lasers and semiconductor devices
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Awarded IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award (1974).
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Won Stuart Ballantine Medal (1973).
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Smith and Willard Boyle invented the charge-coupled device (CCD), for which they have jointly received the Franklin Institute's Stuart Ballantine Medal in 1973, the 1974 IEEE Morris N
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With a thesis on the anomalous skin effect in bismuth
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Studied at University of Chicago, Doctor of Philosophy (1959).
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Published “Colorimetric Method for Determination of Sugars and Related Substances” in Analytical Chemistry — cited 42,361 times.
Studied at University of Pennsylvania, Bachelor of Science (1955).
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Born 1930-05-10.
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