Rangarira ndima iri pasi apa uye ipapo pindura mubvunzo gare gare mumutauro mumwe chetewo sechikamu:  Nhoroondo: Smith akaberekerwa muWhite Plains, New York. Smith akashanda muUS Navy, uye akazowana B.Sc. degree kubva kuYunivhesiti yePennsylvania muna 1955 uye Ph.D. degree kubva kuYunivhesiti yeChicago muna 1959 aine rondedzero yemapeji masere chete. Akashanda paBell Labs muMurray Hill, New Jersey kubva muna 1959 kusvika pamudyandigere wake muna 1986, kwaakatungamira kutsvakurudza kwema lasers matsva nemidziyo ye semiconductor. Munguva yake, Smith akapiwa gumi nemaviri patents uye pakupedzisira akatungamirira VLSI mudziyo dhipatimendi. Muna 1969, Smith uye Willard Boyle akagadzira Charge-Coupled mudziyo (CCD), izvo ivo pamwe chete vakagamuchira Franklin Institute Stuart Ballantine Medal muna 1973, 1974 IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award, 2006 Charles Stark Draper Prize, uye 2009 Nobel Prize muna Physics.  Mubvunzo: Smith akashanda muuto raani?
U.S. Navy