George E. Smith, Co-Inventor of the CCD Image Sensor, Dies at 95

George E. Smith, Co-Inventor of the CCD Image Sensor, Dies at 95

Dr. George Elwood Smith, one of the co-inventors of the CCD image sensor who played a pivotal role in the development of digital photography, passed away last week at his home in New Jersey. He was 95.

George E. Smith, Nobel laureate who envisioned digital imagery, dies at 95

George E. Smith, a Bell Labs researcher who joined a colleague at a blackboard in 1969 to sketch out an idea that became the foundation for digital photography and applications such as deep space imagery — a breakthrough honored 40…