Willard Boyle
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.
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- Born in
- Amherst
- Educated at
- McGill UniversityLower Canada College
- Awards
- 🏆 Nobel Prize in Physics
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1924
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