Willard Boyle
Canadian physicist (1924–2011) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Willard Sterling Boyle, CC (August 19, 1924 – May 7, 2011) was a Canadian physicist.[4] He was a pioneer in the field of laser technology and co-inventor of the charge-coupled device.[5] As director of Space Science and Exploratory Studies at Bellcomm he helped select lunar landing sites and provided support for the Apollo space program.[6]
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Born | Willard Sterling Boyle (1924-08-19)August 19, 1924 Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada |
Died | May 7, 2011(2011-05-07) (aged 86) Truro, Nova Scotia,[1] Canada |
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Known for | Charge-coupled device[3] |
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Betty Boyle (m. 1946) |
Children | 4 |
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Fields | Applied physics |
Institutions | Bell Labs |
Thesis | The construction of a Dempster type mass spectrometer: its use in the measurement of the diffusion rates of certain alkali metals in tungsten (1950) |
Doctoral advisor | H.G.I. Watson |
On October 6, 2009, it was announced that he would share the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for "the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit – the CCD sensor, which has become an electronic eye in almost all areas of photography".[2]
He was appointed a Companion of the Order of Canada – the award's highest level – on June 30, 2010.[7]