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Willard Boyle
Co-inventing the charge-coupled device used in digital imaging.
Charge-coupled device · Apollo support
- Born
- 19 August 1924
- Birthplace
- Amherst
- Died
- 7 May 2011
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Willard Boyle
Willard Boyle was a Canadian physicist who shared part of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics with George Smith.
Early life
Education
Was initially taught at home in Quebec, then studied at McGill, completing a doctorate in 1950 after wartime naval service.
Career
- 1953
Bell Laboratories
Joined the telecommunications research laboratory.
- 1962
Space research
Took a Bellcomm role supporting the Apollo programme.
- 1969
CCD invention
Developed the charge-coupled device with George Smith.
- 1979
Retirement
Left Bell Labs.
Contributions
Charge-coupled device
A semiconductor device that became central to digital imaging.
Apollo support
Helped assess lunar landing sites.
Beyond research
Art
Helped establish an art gallery in Nova Scotia with his wife Betty, a landscape artist.
Sources & photo credit
Biography and career ↗Biographical references ↗Additional biographical or research source ↗Original photograph. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.
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