Physics Nobel Prize honors three for advances in digital imagery (The Current Online)
October 19th, 2009 by
The 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics was shared between three scientists. Dr. Charles K. Kao was awarded half of the award for his breakthrough regarding the transmission of light in the field of fiber optics. Dr. Willard S. Boyle and Dr. George E. Smith were awarded the honor for inventing the Charged-Coupled Device, a sensor found in digital cameras.