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Michael Francis Tompsett is a British born physicist and former researcher at English Electric Valve Company, who later moved to Bell Labs in America. Tompsett designed and built the first ever video camera with a solid-state sensor.
Tompsett is known particularly for his work on infrared imagers and CCD imagers. He pioneered compact, low power, high performance and low cost solid-state infrared imagers, CCD imagers and digital cameras and made contributions in several fields with patents and publications over an extended period of time. He claims to be the inventor of the CCD imager, used in devices such as digital cameras.
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