Tirohia te wāhanga i raro nei, kātahi ka whakautu i te pātai i muri mai i te reo kotahi me te wāhanga:  Passage: I whanau a Smith i White Plains, New York. I mahi a Smith i te US Navy, ana ka whiwhi i tana B.Sc. tohu mai i te Whare Waananga o Pennsylvania i te tau 1955 me tana Ph.D. tohu mai i te Whare Waananga o Chicago i te tau 1959 me te tuhinga e waru noa nga whaarangi. I mahi ia i Bell Labs i Murray Hill, New Jersey mai i te 1959 tae noa ki tana reti i te 1986, i reira i arahi ai ia i nga rangahau mo nga laser hou me nga taputapu semiconductor. I a ia e mahi ana, i whakawhiwhia a Smith ki nga tohu patene me te upoko o te tari taputapu VLSI.I te 1969, i hangaia e Smith me Willard Boyle te Pūrere-Coupled Pūrere (CCD), na reira i whiwhi tahi ai raua i te Tohu Stuart Ballantine o te Franklin Institute i te 1973, te 1974 IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award, te 2006 Charles Stark Draper Prize, me te 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics.  Pātai: I mahi a Smith i roto i a wai?
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