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Willard Boyle
Canadian physicist and inventor / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Willard Sterling Boyle, CC (August 19, 1924– May 7, 2011)[2] was a Canadian physicist[3][4] and co-inventor of the charge-coupled device.[5] On October 6, 2009, he won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for "the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit—the CCD sensor".[6]
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Willard S. Boyle | |
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Born | (1924-08-19)August 19, 1924 |
Died | May 7, 2011(2011-05-07) (aged 86) |
Citizenship | Canada |
Alma mater | McGill University Lower Canada College |
Known for | Charge-coupled device |
Awards | IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award Draper Prize Nobel Prize in Physics (2009) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Applied physics |
Institutions | Bell Labs |
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