What We Learned This Week: George E. Smith, an Inventor of the CCD Image Sensor, Dies at 95
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In 1969, George E. Smith, a Bell Labs researcher, joined a colleague, Willard S. Boyle, at a blackboard to sketch out an idea that would be become the foundation for digital photography— a breakthrough, as The Washington Post reported recently, that was honored 40 years later with a Nobel …