CORRECTS DATE OF PHOTO TO DEC. 20, 1974** This Dec. 20, 1974 photo provided Tuesday Oct. 6, 2009 by Alcatel-Lucent shows Bell Labs researchers Willard Boyle, left, and George Smith at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, N.J. , with the charge-coupled device, which transforms patterns of light into useful digital information. Smith and Boyle, and Charles K. Kao, whose research in the 1960s laid the foundation for digital images and lightning-fast communication shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for their work developing fiber-optic cable and the sensor at the heart of digital cameras. AP Photo logo AP Photo 28 months ago

CORRECTS DATE OF PHOTO TO DEC. 20, 1974** This Dec. 20, 1974 photo provided Tuesday Oct. 6, 2009 by Alcatel-Lucent shows Bell Labs researchers Willard Boyle, left, and George Smith at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, N.J. , with the charge-coupled device, which transforms patterns of light into useful digital information. Smith and Boyle, and Charles K. Kao, whose research in the 1960s laid the foundation for digital images and lightning-fast communication shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for their work developing fiber-optic cable and the sensor at the heart of digital cameras.

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