George E. Smith, 79, an avid sailor who spent 17 years sailing around the world on the 31-foot sail boat depicted behind him, receives a congratulatory telephone call at his home in Waretown, N.J., Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009, after it was announced that he had won the Nobel Prize in physics. Smith along with Willard S. Boyle, 85, were honored for inventing the eye of the digital camera, a sensor able to transform light into a large number of pixels, the tiny points of color that are the building blo