Physics and Physicists (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
And excellent article on the importance, and necessity, of fundamental, basic research in light of the Nobel Prize in physics this year. The problem the country faces is that the conditions in which Charles Kao, Willard Boyle, and George Smith made their breakthroughs are harder to come by today. Kao, for example, made his breakthroughs in fiber optics (the thin glass threads that now carry a vast...
BlatantNews.com (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Charles K. Kao, Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith - the fathers of fiber optics and digital imaging - get the Nobel Prize for Physics, and multiple winners also recieved the Medicine and Chemistry Medals too. View a full list of all winners of the six medals, and reasons for the awards
Blue Jersey: Covering NJ like a rug (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
The 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics was shared by Charles Kuo for the fiberoptics and Willard Boyle and George Smith of New Jersey's Bell Labs for "the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit - the CCD sensor" or "Charge-Coupled Device." Just about every photo we've posted at Blue Jersey has used a CCD camera, for they are now widely available as the heart of the "digital...
Digital Cheeseburger (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Digital Cheeseburger - your daily diet of irresistible unhealthy stuff is an entertainment post from: Digital Cheeseburger - covering Celebrity News, Hollywood Rumors, Celebrity Gossip, Celeb Opinion Here is a list of all the 2009 Nobel Prize winners for their respective categories, and the reasons given by The Nobel Prize committee for awarding prizes to these recipients. Physiology or Medicine:...
Gizmodo (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Williard "Mr. Modesty" Boyle and George "Three Page Dissertation" Smith, sailors extraordinaire and co-winners of this year's Nobel prize in physics deserve time in our spotlight: They invented the CCD image sensors which gave our digital cameras eyes. It took them a while to get there, but once they crossed paths, Boyle and Smith quickly got to working on our beloved CCD image...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
&$ &$Photos of three winners of the Nobel Prize in physics for 2009 are seen on a screen during an announcement ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden, Oct. 6, 2009. Charles K. Kao, Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith on Tuesday won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries of importance for the internet and data and telephone communications and the digital camera. (Xinhua/Wu Ping) &$ &$...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
The following is a list of winners of the Nobel Prize in physics since 2000: 2009: Charles K. Kao (Britain and U.S.), Willard S. Boyle (U.S. and Canada) and George E. Smith (U.S.); 2008: Yoichiro Nambu (U.S.), Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa (Japan); 2007: Albert Fert (France) and Peter Grunberg (Germany); 2006: John C. Mather and George F. Smoot (U.S.); 2005: John L. Hall, Roy J. Glauber (U.S.)...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
&$ &$Photos of three winners of the Nobel Prize in physics for 2009 are seen on a screen during an announcement ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden, Oct. 6, 2009. Charles K. Kao, Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith on Tuesday won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries of importance for the internet and data and telephone communications and the digital camera. (Xinhua/Wu Ping) &$ &$...
KIJO (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
So apparently a controversial Nobel Peace Prize was awarded this week. Forget that one. Focus instead on the far geekier one that was also awarded this week. Why? Because we gadget lovers have a lot to be thankful for! The Nobel Prize for physics is the award in question, and it was actually split between two winners this year. The first, Charles K. Kao, is the man most responsible for making fiber...
Small Thoughts (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Obama received the Nobel peace prize this morning in a move that surprised even him. WHPS Gibbs had to wake him up just before 6 a.m. this morning to pass along the message. I woke up on my own this morning around 6 a.m., where's my Nobel? I support the President, but I think my reaction was along the lines of what Gibbs had to be thinking: "Oh god. How are we going to live up to this one?"...
The Economist (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Prizes for optical fibres, charge-coupled devices, ribosomes and telomeres HOW do you look through a window that is 100km thick? That, in essence, was the question facing Charles Kao in 1966. For working out the answer, Dr Kao has been awarded part of this year’s Nobel prize for physics. Besides being thick, the window was narrow: it was an optical fibre. Dr Kao’s prize is a belated recognition...
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Digital SLR Camera (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
The 2009 Nobel Prize for Physics went, in part, to the inventors of the charge-coupled device George Smith and Willard Boyle this week. Their innovation, sketched out in 1969, is now the imager in millions of digital cameras and telescopes. The very first prototype, pieced together months after Smith and Boyle laid out its working principles, is pictured above. A charge-coupled device, in most applications,...
OUPblog (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
OUP congratulates Charles Kao, Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith on their Nobel Prize.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
PISCATAWAY, N.J., Oct. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- IEEE, the world's largest technical professional association, is proud to congratulate three of its Life Fellows - Dr. Charles K. Kao, Dr. Willard S. Boyle and Dr. George E. Smith - as recipients of the 2009 Nobel Prize in physics.
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switbd | 10/07/2009
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2009 with one half to Charles K. Kao, Standard Telecommunication Laboratories, Harlow, UK, and Chinese University of Hong Kong “for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication”, and the other half jointly to Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith, Bell Laboratories,
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