Willard Boyle - Nobel Prize in Physics — 2009
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Willard Boyle

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 2009
for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit - the CCD sensor
Together with: Charles K. Kao, George E. Smith
Citizenship
CanadaCanadaUnited StatesUnited States
Languages
English
date of birth
8/19/1924
place of birth
Amherst
date of death
5/7/2011
place of death
Wallace
Lived
86 years

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occupation
  • physicist
  • inventor
  • photographer
  • scientist
  • executive
field of work
  • semi-conductor laser
  • electronic component
  • space research
  • charge-coupled device
  • video technology
  • image processing
  • physics
  • history of technology
educated at
  • McGill University
  • Lower Canada College
employer
  • Bell Labs
work location
  • Nova Scotia
member of
  • American Physical Society
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