And the Nobel Prize for Physics 2009 goes to...

The scientists who developed/invented the CCD.

Yes, but what's his name?

Some companies would have us think it was their work!

Willard Boyle and George E. Smith, researchers at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, will each receive a quarter of the ten-million-Swedish-kronor (1.4-million-U.S. dollar) 2009 Nobel Prize in physics.

Canada-born Boyle and Smith, a U.S. native, invented a sensor for capturing digital images called the charge coupled device or CCD.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/10/091006-nobel-prize-2009-physics-...

So not C**** or S*** then?

Have just been reading the Nobel site about the Physics prize.

The other half went to:

Charles K. Kao

Standard Telecommunication Laboratories
Harlow, United Kingdom;
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong, China

And the article has several spelling mistakes. The word Fibre (as in Fibre Optics) is spelt with RE at the end whereas the Nobel site spells it in the American way with ER.

As the recipient is Hong Kong/English I would have hoped they would get the spelling correct and use the one from his home country(ies) which in both cases is RE.

But then given the latest announcement that Obama has won the Peace Prize it does show they really do not have a clue - unless he got it for not launching a nuclear strike on Iran.

Actually, launchimg a nuclear strike on Iran might do more for peace than not doing so.

G

Don't give them ideas George.

How long does it take to get a Nobel then?

1989 found me nailing a CCD camera to the side of a Tornado head up display.

I think it was absolutely extraordinary to give the prize to Obama. Not saying he won't perhaps merit it someday, but now?

Have the Nobel committee been Nobeled?

G

In the mid 80's I was playing around with CCDs for the processing of sonar information!

A strange implementation but ... not much more I can say.

Temple of doom per chance?

Much as you may dislike this, it is now the accepted way to spell fibre in the context of optical fibers across the industry, across the globe. A colleague did a degree in telecoms which not surprisingly included a lot of work in this area. He submitted a large piece of work with the word "fibre" used consistently throughout. He got slated by his (British) lecturer and heavily marked down for this.

Then the lecturer should have been taken out and shot.

G

Oh I don't know George, he did oust Dubya, which is probably a significant contribution to world peace.

That's a solid point, as K10D would say.

G

Interesting read about this link