It's about time. They started the digital revolution.

For good or bad, according to which opinion you adhere to, the digital photo revolution was started back in 1969 at Bell Labs the great American free enterprise lab that was perhaps the most creative and innovative research facility in the world. Among the many inventions, they developed the transistor. And finally, after 40 years, the Noble Prize Committee came around to making the award.
So the two physicists who co-invented the CCD image sensor,Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith have been rewarded with a share of this year's Nobel Prize for Physics. They developed the charge-coupled device in 1969 while working at Bell Laboratories, and produced the world's first solid-state video camera just a year later. Each receives a quarter share in the $1.4 million prize. Well it's about time.