George E. Smith's Birth Card: The 9 of Diamonds

In the record

George Elwood Smith (May 10, 1930 – May 28, 2025) was an American applied physicist and a co-inventor of the charge-coupled device (CCD). The birth-card coordinate for May 10 is the 9 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2009 Physics prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 2009 The Nobel Prize in Physics — for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit - the CCD sensor

The 9 of Diamonds coordinate

George E. Smith's birthday maps to the 9 of Diamonds (The Universal Provider). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on George E. Smith. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You give in a way you can sustain, and you let someone give back.

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George E. Smith in the public record

Smith shared one half of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics with Willard Boyle "for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit - the CCD sensor." George Elwood Smith was born on May 10, 1930, in White Plains, New York. After serving in the United States Navy for four years and taking courses at the University of Miami, Smith qualified as a sophomore at the University of Pennsylvania in 1952, graduating with a B.S. in 1955. He then became a teaching assistant at the University of Chicago, where he received his Ph.D. in 1959 with a thesis on the anomalous skin effect in bismuth. From 1959 until his retirement in 1986, Smith worked at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, where he led research into novel lasers and semiconductor devices. During his tenure, Smith was awarded dozens of patents and eventually headed the VLSI device department. In 1969, Smith and Willard Boyle invented the charge-coupled device (CCD), for which they have jointly received the Franklin Institute's Stuart Ballantine Medal in 1973, the 1974 IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award, the 2006 Charles Stark Draper Prize, and the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics. Both Boyle and Smith were avid sailors who took many trips together.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article George E. Smith (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the 2 of Clubs

A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about George E. Smith, and not a forecast of a Nobel Prize.

Natural partnership and team-building ability

Smith shared one half of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics with Willard Boyle "for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit - the CCD sensor." George Elwood Smith was born on May 10, 1930, in White Plains, New York.

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Also on the record

1. After retirement, Smith sailed around the world with his life partner, Janet, for seventeen years, eventually giving up his hobby in 2003 to "spare his 'creaky bones' from further storms".
2. He resided in the Waretown section of Ocean Township, Ocean County, New Jersey.
3. Smith died at his home in Barnegat Township, New Jersey, on May 28, 2025, at the age of 95.
4. Invention Hall of Fame Biography Amateur Radio licensee Interview in Czech TV December 2013 (in English and Czech) George E.

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FAQ

What is George E. Smith's birth card?

The 9 of Diamonds. May 10 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict a Nobel Prize?

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Where do George E. Smith's dates come from?

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