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Willard Sterling Boyle (Amherst, 19 agosto 1924 – Halifax, 7 maggio 2011) è stato un fisico canadese
Willard Sterling Boyle, CC (August 19, 1924 – May 7, 2011) was a Canadian physicist. He was a pioneer in the field of laser technology and co-inventor of the charge-coupled device. As director of Space Science and Exploratory Studies at Bellcomm he helped select lunar landing sites and provided support for the Apollo space program.
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Boyle, Willard Sterling. – Fisico canadese (Amherst 1924 - Truro 2011). Ricercatore nei Bell Labs di Murray Hill, con G.E. Smith ha inventato il Charge-Coupled Device (CCD), una memoria elettronica che può essere caricata dalla luce e che ha rivoluzionato il settore della fotografia, soprattutto nell’ambito dell’astronomia.
6 mag 2011 · Settore: Ottica. Evento: Anno Internazionale della Luce - IYL2015. Stampa questa biografia. Associazione per l'Insegnamento della Fisica.
10 mag 2011 · Willard S. Boyle, who won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for helping to develop a device that is at the heart of virtually every camcorder, digital camera and telescope in use, died on...
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2009. Born: 19 August 1924, Amherst, NS, Canada. Died: 7 May 2011, Truro, NS, Canada. Affiliation at the time of the award: Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, USA. Prize motivation: “for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit - the CCD sensor”. Prize share: 1/4.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2009 was divided, one half awarded to Charles Kuen Kao "for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication", the other half jointly to Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith "for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit - the CCD sensor"
