How are the Nobel Prize, digital camcorders and telescopes all alike? We found that this year when a co-inventor of the CCD won the Nobel Prize.
During the past few years, Nobel Prize winners are usually more known for her research have been working in their fields. But originally it was meant to reward those whose focus was on the invention, as well as research. This year awards two physicists who worked together to invent CCD returns award for inventors again.
CCD stands for charge-coupled device. This is the unit that the digital camera or camcorder to capture and collect light from the scene and record internally at the camera. Willard Boyle and George E. Smith has worked at Bell Labs in 1969, where they developed the technology and worked to create a real working model. After the first attempt, the operating working prototype about a year later. This discovery changed the world forever capture images.
from the time of his original work, it's completely revolutionized all areas that depend on the recording.
In addition to the rapid adoption of cameras and camcorders, CCD technology is also rapidly adapt items such as telescopes and medical imaging uređaje.CCD quickly went into space and is used in space probes, spy satellites and astronomical telescopes, such as the Space Telescope Hubble. Ground telescopes and changing rapidly over the CCD. View the film board to take long exposures of the telescope is a thing of the past. Now the images recorded on CCD and viewed and processed on computers.
This remarkable change in the way we record the changes we are all most familiar. Modern digital cameras and speed cameras have changed from film to use technology that is a direct descendant of CCD. Digital photography is quickly replaced with his film the ease of use and adequate or better quality.
In addition, other uses such as night vision technology, night vision cameras and night vision goggles used by all advanced CCD sensors for gathering and amplifying light. Benefits like this have not heard a few decades ago.
Boyle and Smith work in the invention of the CCD truly changed the world in a very short time. Their contribution to the technology will long be remembered and applauded. If Nobel prizes were assessed by the actual number of human beings affected by the discoveries, inventions CCD would rank near or at the top of the list.
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