Nobel Prize in Physics-2009
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2009-10-06
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Nobel Committee for Physics
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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2009 with one half to Charles K. Kao, "for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibres for optical communication" and the other half jointly to Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith "for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit – the CCD sensor".
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Masters of light, Image sensor, CCD, Charles K. Kao, Radio waves, Willard S. Boyle, Physics, George E. Smith