3 Americans share Nobel physics prize
Three Americans whose research in the 1960s laid the foundation for digital images and lightning-fast communication shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in physics yesterday for their work developing fiber-optic cable and the sensor at the heart of digital cameras.
Charles K Kao, 75, Willard S Boyle, 85, and George E Smith, 79, were honored for inventing the eye of the digital camera, a sensor able to transform light into a large number of pixels, the tiny points of color that are the building blocks of every digital image.
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