The Nobel Prize in Physics 2009
Awarded on: 2009-10-06
"for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit - the CCD sensor"
Affiliations:
- Bell Laboratories – Murray Hill, NJ, USA
Willard S. Boyle
Born: 1924-08-19 in Amherst, NS, Canada
Gender: male
Field: Canadian applied physicist (1924–2011)
Biography
Willard Sterling Boyle was a Canadian applied physicist who shared one half of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics with George E. Smith for their invention of the charge-coupled device.