George E. Smith
Nobel prize winning American physicist
Also known as George Elwood Smith · George Smith
- Born
- May 10, 1930
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Sources- 1.Stated in Integrated Authority FileRetrieved 2014-04-09
- 2.Stated in SNACRetrieved 2017-10-09
- 3.Stated in Encyclopædia Britannica OnlineRetrieved 2017-10-09
- 4.Stated in Brockhaus EnzyklopädieRetrieved 2017-10-09
- 5.Stated in Munzinger PersonenRetrieved 2017-10-09
- 6.Stated in Great Norwegian EncyclopediaRetrieved 2026-10-17
- May 10, 1930
- Died
- May 28, 2025
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Sources- 1.“George E. Smith Dead: Nobel Prize Winner Was 95”nytimes.com/2025/05/30/science/george-e-smith-dead.htmlRetrieved 2025-05-31
- 2.Stated in Great Norwegian EncyclopediaRetrieved 2026-10-17
- May 28, 2025
- Birthplace
- Place of death
- Barnegat Township
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Sources- 1.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/science/george-e-smith-dead.html
- 2.Stated in Great Norwegian EncyclopediaRetrieved 2026-10-17
- Barnegat Township
- Citizenship
- Occupation
- physicist
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- , photographer
- , scientist
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Sources- 1.Stated in Czech National Authority DatabaseRetrieved 2022-12-18
- +1 more
- physicist
- Education
- University of Chicago(until 1959)
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- , University of Pennsylvania(until 1955)
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- University of Chicago(until 1959)
- Employer
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- Awards
- Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering(2017)
- Nobel Prize in Physics(2009) together with: Charles K. Kao, Willard Boyle · prize money: 2.5M SEK · award rationale: for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit - the CCD sensor, för uppfinningen av en avbildande halvledarkrets – CCD-detektorn
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Sources- 1.“The Nobel Prize in Physics 2009”nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2009/
- 2.“The Nobel Prize amounts”nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/about/amounts/
- National Inventors Hall of Fame(2006)
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- Charles Stark Draper Prize(2006) award rationale: for the invention of the charge-coupled device (CCD), a light-sensitive component at the heart of digital cameras and other widely used imaging technologies
- Edwin H. Land Medal(2001)
- IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award(1974)
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Sources- 1.“IEEE MORRIS N. LIEBMANN MEMORIAL AWARD RECIPIENTS”corporate-awards.ieee.org/wp-content/uploads/liebmann_rl.pdfRetrieved 2025-05-31
- Stuart Ballantine Medal(1973)
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Sources- 1.“George E.Smith”fi.edu/en/awards/laureates/george-e-smithRetrieved 2025-05-31
- Field of work
- physics
- electronic component
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Sources- 1.Stated in Czech National Authority DatabaseRetrieved 2022-11-07
- image processing
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Sources- 1.Stated in Czech National Authority DatabaseRetrieved 2022-11-07
- history of technology
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Sources- 1.Stated in Czech National Authority DatabaseRetrieved 2022-11-07
- video technology
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Sources- 1.Stated in Czech National Authority DatabaseRetrieved 2024-11-08
- semi-conductor laser
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Sources- 1.Stated in Czech National Authority DatabaseRetrieved 2024-11-27
- charge-coupled device
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Sources- 1.Stated in Czech National Authority DatabaseRetrieved 2024-12-27
- Name in native language
- George Elwood Smith
- Copyright status as a creator
- works protected by copyrights applies to jurisdiction: countries with longer than 50 years pma
On other databases
34 identifiers linking George E. Smith across the web's reference databases
- Academic Tree ID49867
- Article ID in the Lithuanian Universal Encyclopedia Onlinegeorge-elwood-smith
- Awards & Winners artist ID09qtr8
- Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online IDsmith-george-e
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online IDbiography/George-E-Smith
- Encyclopædia Universalis IDgeorge-elwood-smith
- Find a Grave memorial ID283401186
- Freebase ID/m/09qtr8
- Geni profile ID6000000041440354071
- GND ID139419039
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana IDgeorge-elwood-smith
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)0516710
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia IDGeorge_Elwood_Smith
- Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)3839835
- Great Russian Encyclopedia portal IDsmit-dzhordzh-elvud-346712
- Hrvatska enciklopedija ID69385
- ISNI0000000071656358
- Lex IDGeorge_Elwood_Smith
- Munzinger person ID00000028071
- National Academy of Engineering member ID28541
- National Inventors Hall of Fame IDgeorge-e-smith
- NE.se IDgeorge-e-smith
- NL CR AUT IDntk2017963033
- NNDB people ID899/000208275
- Nobel Laureate API ID840
- Online PWN Encyclopedia ID4961328
- Open Library IDOL1975048A
- Photographers' Identities Catalog ID386838
- Physics History Network ID11506006
- Scopus author ID57198544798
- SNAC ARK IDw6dk91kv
- VIAF cluster ID101161274
- Who's Who UK IDU250918
- WorldCat Entities IDE39PBJjT4jqPvm4TW4fp8TkRrq
