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Published: 23 December, 2009, 17:45
Edited: 24 December, 2009, 12:05


Former colleagues at Bell Labs are now involved in a bitter row over who deserved this year’s Nobel Prize for inventing the CCD matrix, the heart of modern digital imaging.

 
3 COMMENTS
Count Cash December 23, 2009, 17:53 quote
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Why all the fuss, considering Nobel prizes have shown to be worthless in academic terms! Give it to someone who hates Physics, or better someone against science all together. Then it will meet the merit of the award and its accuracy.

peter December 23, 2009, 23:07 quote
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We all know why the Nobel Price was invented for and what kind of interests to serve, but the history in not too far away, so just let it be and be entertain with the politically chosen winners from those who control the Nobel Price fund.

Acushla December 24, 2009, 04:50 quote
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The Nobel Committee have shown they are more political people than anything else. Giving Nobel Prizes to Gore and Obama are prime examples of this.

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