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New York Times
05-06-2025
- Science
- New York Times
Corrections: June 5, 2025
An article on Wednesday about the large-scale deadly shooting near a food distribution center in southern Gaza on Tuesday referred imprecisely to the locations of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation's aid distribution sites in Gaza. They are mostly in the south of the enclave, and one is in central Gaza. An article on Wednesday about the spread of 3D-printed firearms in the Aland Islands, an autonomous stretch of rocky coves in the middle of the Baltic Sea, misspelled the surname of an Aland Islands gunsmith and misstated the year he died. His name is Janne Stenroos, not Stenros, and he died in 2022, not 2023. An obituary on Sunday about the actress Loretta Swit referred incorrectly to the film 'Race With a Devil,' in which Ms. Swit appeared in 1975. It had a theatrical release; it was not a television movie. The obituary also misstated the rank of the father of Ms. Swit's character, Major Houlihan, in the television series 'M*A*S*H.' He was a colonel, not a general. An obituary on Sunday about George E. Smith, who shared a Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of a revolutionary imaging device, referred incorrectly to an interview he gave in 2001. It was for an oral history project conducted by the IEEE History Center in Piscataway, N.J., not with the Engineering and Technology History Wiki website. The obituary also misstated the number of pages in his noted doctoral dissertation at the University of Chicago in 1959. It was eight pages, not three. (At the time, it was the shortest Ph.D. dissertation in the university's history.) Errors are corrected during the press run whenever possible, so some errors noted here may not have appeared in all editions. To contact the newsroom regarding correction requests, please email nytnews@ To share feedback, please visit Comments on opinion articles may be emailed to letters@ For newspaper delivery questions: 1-800-NYTIMES (1-800-698-4637) or email customercare@
New York Times
30-05-2025
- General
- New York Times
George E. Smith, Nobel Winner Who Created a Digital Eye, Dies at 95
George E. Smith, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing a revolutionary imaging device that has not only allowed scientists see the universe more clearly but has also made it possible for hundreds of millions of people to record every birthday and vacation for posterity, died on Wednesday at his home in Barnegat Township, N.J. He was 95. His death was confirmed by his daughter Lauren Lanning. It was while he was working at Bell Laboratories in 1969 that Dr. Smith and a colleague, Willard S. Boyle, came up with the idea for what is known as the charge-coupled device, or CCD — a technology that is an essential component of nearly every telescope, medical scanner, photocopier and digital camera in use today. Their work helped build 'the foundation to our modern information society,' Gunnar Oquist, the Nobel academy's secretary general, said when it was announced that Dr. Smith and Dr. Boyle would share the 2009 prize for physics. (They split the award with Charles K. Kao, who was recognized for work that resulted in the development of fiber-optic cables.) Dr. Smith and Dr. Boyle had been trying to create better memory storage for computers when the idea for the CCD arose. They thought the photoelectric effect — which Einstein had explained, an explanation that won him a 1921 Nobel Prize — might offer a solution. The photoelectric phenomenon occurs when electromagnetic radiation, such as light, hits a metal surface, dislodging electrons from atoms and causing a current to flow through the metal. The device that Dr. Smith and Dr. Boyle created employs rows of tiny capacitors to store and transfer the electrical charge — essentially capturing light — and uses the information to construct an image. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
