George E. Smith
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| Born | May 10, 1930 White Plains, New York, U.S. |
| Died | May 28, 2025 (aged 95) |
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| Known for | Charge-coupled device |
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| Fields | Applied physics |
| Institutions | Bell Labs |
| Thesis | The Anomalous Skin Effect in Bismuth (1959) |
| Doctoral advisor | E.A. Long |
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".