Your digital camera and the Nobel Prize

October 17, 2009 by A. Cemal Ekin
Filed under All Posts, Camera and Lens, Digital, Featured Photographer, News

Willard S. Boyle

George E. Smith

This year, the Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to two American physicists “for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit – the CCD sensor”. Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith made it possible for us to enjoy the tremendous capabilities of digital photography. We owe them gratitude.

Read more about them at the Nobel Prize Web site.

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