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Equipment & Techniques => Medium Format / Film / Digital Backs – and Large Sensor Photography => Topic started by: ThierryH on October 06, 2009, 07:51:06 am

Title: Nobel Prize for CCD Inventer of CCD
Post by: ThierryH on October 06, 2009, 07:51:06 am

I thought it deserves to be known, FYI:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/...hysics-09-10-06 (http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=nobel-prize-in-physics-09-10-06)

Best regards,
Thierry

Title: Nobel Prize for CCD Inventer of CCD
Post by: ThierryH on October 06, 2009, 11:35:14 am

.. and "Kao" means "rice" in chinese, right?

 

Thierry

Quote from: xinchenc

Charles Kao born in Shanghai in 1933.

Title: Nobel Prize for CCD Inventer of CCD
Post by: Voltman on October 12, 2009, 12:27:43 pm

Quote from: xinchenc

Charles Kao born in Shanghai in 1933.

Perhaps you've misread the article.  George Smith and Willard Boyle of Bell Labs in New Jersey were co-inventors of the CCD, and shared the Nobel with Kao, who invented optical fiber data transmission. Both equally important obviously...