Background
Smith was born in White Plains, New New York
Smith was born in White Plains, New New York
University of Chicago. University of Pennsylvania.
He was awarded a one-quarter share in the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for "the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit—the charge-coupled device sensor, which has become an electronic eye in almost all areas of photography". He worked at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey from 1959 to his retirement in 1986, where he led research into novel lasers and semiconductor devices. During his tenure, Smith was awarded dozens of patents and eventually headed the Very-large-scale integration device department.
Both Boyle and Smith were avid sailors who took many trips together.
Smith served in the United States Navy, attained his Bachelor of Science at the University of Pennsylvania in 1955 and his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Chicago in 1959 with a dissertation of only eight pages. In 1969, Smith and Willard Boyle invented the Charge-Coupled Device (charge-coupled device), for which they have jointly received the Franklin Institute"s Stuart Ballantine Medal in 1973, the 1974 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award, the 2006 Charles Stark Draper Prize, and the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics. In 2015, Smith was awarded the Progress Medal and Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society.
