Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  An haifi Smith a cikin White Plains, New York. Smith ya yi aiki a cikin Sojojin Ruwa na Amurka, kuma daga baya ya sami B.Sc. digiri daga Jami'ar Pennsylvania a 1955 da kuma Ph.D. digiri daga Jami'ar Chicago a 1959 tare da rubutun shafuka takwas kawai. Ya yi aiki a Bell Labs a Murray Hill, New Jersey daga 1959 zuwa ritayarsa a 1986, inda ya jagoranci bincike kan sabbin lasers da na'urorin semiconductor. A lokacin da yake aiki, an ba Smith dama da dama kuma daga bisani ya jagoranci sashen na'urar VLSI. A 1969, Smith da Willard Boyle sun kirkiro na'urar CCD, wanda suka karbi lambar yabo ta Stuart Ballantine na Cibiyar Franklin a 1973, da 1974 IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award, da 2006 Charles Stark Draper Prize, da kuma 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics.  Tambaya: Wanene Smith ya yi aiki a?
Rundunar Sojan Ruwa ta Amurka