Rịba ama amaokwu a dị n'okpuru ma zaa ajụjụ ahụ mgbe e mesịrị n'otu asụsụ ahụ dị ka amaokwu ahụ:  Ebe e si nweta ya: A mụrụ Smith na White Plains, New York. Smith jere ozi na US Navy, ma mesịa nweta B.Sc. ogo ya na Mahadum nke Pennsylvania na 1955 na Ph.D. ogo ya na Mahadum nke Chicago na 1959 na a dissertation nke naanị peeji asatọ. Ọ rụrụ ọrụ na Bell Labs na Murray Hill, New Jersey site na 1959 ruo mgbe ọ lara ezumike nká na 1986, ebe ọ duziri nyocha na lasers ọhụrụ na ngwaọrụ semiconductor. N'oge ọ nọ n'ọchịchị, e nyere Smith ọtụtụ patent ma mesịa duzie ngalaba ngwaọrụ VLSI. N'afọ 1969, Smith na Willard Boyle mepụtara Charge-Coupled Device (CCD), maka nke ha nwetara Stuart Ballantine Medal nke Franklin Institute na 1973, 1974 IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award, 2006 Charles Stark Draper Prize, na 2009 Nobel Prize na Physics.  Ajụjụ: Ònye ka Smith jeere ozi?
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