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George E. Smith

1930 - 2025

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George Elwood Smith (May 10, 1930 – May 28, 2025) was an American scientist, applied physicist, and co-inventor of the charge-coupled device (CCD). He was awarded a one-quarter share in the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for "the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit—the CCD sensor, which has become an electronic eye in almost all areas of photography". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. George E. Smith is the 172nd most popular physicist, the 621st most popular biography from United States and the 21st most popular American Physicist.

George E. Smith is most famous for being the founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, George E. Smith ranks 172 out of 851. Before him are Igor Kurchatov, Gerd Binnig, Joseph Rotblat, Melvin Schwartz, Shin'ichirō Tomonaga, and Hans Georg Dehmelt. After him are Tsung-Dao Lee, Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, Emilio Segrè, Polykarp Kusch, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, and Martin Lewis Perl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, George E. Smith ranks 38. Before him are Johan Galtung, Immanuel Wallerstein, Hugh Everett III, Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, Zhores Alferov, and Ali al-Sistani. After him are Gylmar dos Santos Neves, Edsger W. Dijkstra, Gary Becker, Bernie Ecclestone, Biljana Plavšić, and Akira Suzuki. Among people deceased in 2025, George E. Smith ranks 15. Before him are Sam Nujoma, Horst Köhler, George Foreman, Sebastião Salgado, Aga Khan IV, and Val Kilmer. After him are Richard Chamberlain, Denis Law, Leo Beenhakker, Frederick Forsyth, Sofia Gubaidulina, and Fouad Mebazaa.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, George E. Smith ranks 621 out of 20,380. Before him are Melvin Schwartz (1932), Richard Meier (1934), Albert Pike (1809), Ruth Benedict (1887), John Irving (1942), and Robert Woodrow Wilson (1936). After him are Isaac Singer (1811), Joan Crawford (1904), Marshall Warren Nirenberg (1927), Sylvia Earle (1935), William Friedkin (1935), and Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, George E. Smith ranks 21. Before him are Robert Coleman Richardson (1937), Donald A. Glaser (1926), Kip Thorne (1940), Arthur Compton (1892), Hugh Everett III (1930), and Melvin Schwartz (1932). After him are Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921), Martin Lewis Perl (1927), James Rainwater (1917), Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839), Charles H. Townes (1915), and David Bohm (1992).

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