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George Smith, AA2EJ, wins Nobel PrizeRadio Amateur George Smith, AA2EJ, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit - the CCD sensor. The ARRL reports that Around 5:30 on the morning of October 6, George E. Smith, AA2EJ, of Barnegat, New Jersey, got a phone call that changed his life: He had just found out he had won the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2009 "for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit -- the CCD sensor." Smith will share the prize money with two other recipients: Charles K. Kao, of Standard Telecommunication Laboratories in the United Kingdom and Chinese University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong, China, and Willard S. Boyle, of Bell Laboratories. Read the full ARRL news story at
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