Nobel Prize for inventors of the CCD image sensor
Two physicists who co-invented the CCD image sensor have been rewarded with a share of this year’s Nobel Prize for Physics. Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith developed the charge-coupled device in 1969 while working at Bell Laboratories, producing the world’s first solid-state video camera just a year later. Each receives a quarter share in the $1.4 million prize.
