Inventors of digital photography win QEPrize for Engineering

Posted on 1 Feb 2017 by Jonny Williamson

Decades of research into making digital imaging possible was rewarded today with the award of the £1m Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering to scientists from the UK, the US and Japan.

Eric Fossum & George Smith ( both US), Nobukazu Teranishi (Japan) and Michael Tompsett (UK) have revolutionised the way in which we capture and analyse visual information – image courtesy of Royal Academy of Engineering. The QEPrize is awarded to engineering advances that have changed humanity, a qualification Lord Browne of…

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