Williard Boyle was the other co-inventor. His passing in 2011 was linked here but did not elicit any discussion.
Nobel Prize winner Willard Boyle, inventor of CCD, dies. - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2566440 - May 2011
I had attended his 1999 Nobel Prize Lecture on the invention of the CCD. The video is available.
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2009/smith/lecture...
He was 79 when the photo in the article was taken? That's incredible.
Url changed from https://www.universitycube.net/news/ccd-co-inventor-george-e..., which points to this.
https://archive.ph/U5yI7