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Nobelgate:
Swedish Prize Selection  Committee Faces Critical Peer Review

January 14, 2010 - Public debate exploded over the award of the 2009 Nobel Prize for the discovery of charge coupled devices or "CCD" imaging technology widely used in electronic cameras. In the late 1970's RCA's Lancaster, Pennsylvania facility, then a leader in color studio camera vacuum imaging tubes, including vidicons, visticons, and light amplifiers for security and night vision applications, garnered attention by sending a cigarette sized CCD based "solid state" camera to the ocean depths. The Bell Telephone Laboratories Research facility in nearby Murray Hill, New Jersey had been the epicenter of the new technology, viewed as likely to serve a niche for small cameras facing harsh operating environments. Two Bell researchers, Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith, were recently named winners of the Nobel Prize by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences; ...  Read Entire Article