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Willard Sterling Boyle

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Willard Sterling Boyle

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Also known as Willard S. Boyle

Canadees natuurkundige, Nobelprijswinnaar (1924–2011)

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Willard S. Boyle was born on August 19, 1924, and died on May 7, 2011. He received one Nobel Prize. His Erdős number is 5.

He is recognized in the Nobel Laureates collection. He is also included in the Nobel Physics collection. Additionally, he is recognized in the National Inventors Hall Of Fame collection.

Synthesized by Vinony from 8 facts across 3 sources: Wikidata, Nobel Prize, Vinony collections. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physics2009

    “for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit - the CCD sensor”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Family name
Boyle
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Amherst
Place of death
Wallace
Occupation
executive
Educated at
Lower Canada College
Employer
Bell Labs
Languages spoken
English language
Field of work
charge-coupled device
Image
Nobel Prize 2009-Press Conference KVA-23.jpg
Work location
Nova Scotia
Residence
Canada
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Commons category
Willard Boyle
manner of death
natural causes
cause of death
kidney disease
date of birth
1924-08-19
date of death
2011-05-07
Erdős number
5
member of
American Physical Society
name in native language
Willard Boyle
maintained by WikiProject
WikiProject Mathematics
interested in
physics
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Article · Nederlands

Willard Sterling Boyle (Amherst, 19 augustus 1924 – , 7 mei 2011) was een Canadees natuurkundige en mede-uitvinder van de charge-coupled device. In oktober 2009 kreeg hij samen met George E. Smith de Nobelprijs voor Natuurkunde "Voor hun ontdekking van een beeldverwerkend halfgeleidercircuit, de CCD-sensor". De twee moesten de prijs delen met Charles Kao, die de prijs voor een ander onderzoek kreeg.

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