From left, Gunnar Oquist, Permanent Secretary of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Ingemar Lindstrom of the Academy seated next to portraits of the Nobel Physics Prize winners for 2009 at the session hall of the academy in Stockholm. File portraits from left Charles K. Cao, Willard S. Boyle, ans George E. Smith. Charles K. Kao was cited for his breakthrough involving the transmission of light in fiber optics while Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith were honored for inventing an imaging semiconductor circuit known as the CCD sensor.
(THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Scanpix Sweden//Bertil Ericson)