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more general categories information about this item 10. Noble Prize 10. Noble Prize Physics (209) 11. Award Year 11. Award Year 2000s (123) 2009 (13) 12. Winner Type 12. Winner Type Person (904) 13. Gender 13. Gender Male (853) 14. Birth Year 14. Birth Year 1920s (114) 1924 (10) 15. Place of Birth 15. Place of Birth North America (290) Canada (19) Amherst (1) 16. Death Year 16. Death Year 2010s (99) 2011 (12) 17. Place of Death 17. Place of Death North America (223) Canada (6) Wallace (1) 19. Given Name 19. Given Name S-Z (143) W (48) 20. Family Name 20. Family Name A-D (195) B (80) 21. Shared Given Name 21. Shared Given Name S-Z (69) W (37) Willard (2) 23. Religion 23. Religion z-Missing value reason (465) Source data not available (465) 24. Age at Award Time 24. Age at Award Time 80 - 89 (56) 86 (8) 32. Occupations 32. Occupations Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations (601) Physical Scientists (333) Astronomers and Physicists (222) Physicists (206) 34. Citizens 34. Citizens North America (328) Canada (18) 38. Worked for Corporation 38. Worked for Corporation North America (23) United States (23) Middle Atlantic states (9) Bell Labs (7) New Jersey (6) Murray Hill (4) 42. Affilliation with College or University 42. Affilliation with College or University North America (529) Canada (28) Montreal (14) McGill University (14) Alumni (7) Short-term academic staff (6) 44. Memberships 44. Memberships A-D (656) A (635) American Physical Society (113) 45. Other Awards 45. Other Awards C-D (404) C (272) Charles Stark Draper Prize (8) Companion of the Order of Canada (8) E-F (439) E (135) Edwin H. Land Medal (2) I-J (268) I (80) IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award (9) M-N (333) N (205) National Inventor Hall of Fame (33) Q-Z (398) S (125) Stuart Ballantine Medal (10) complete name: Willard Boyle nobel prize: physics award year: 2009 together with: Charles K. Kao together with: George E. Smith prize share: Prize share: 1/4 rational: 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." biography: Biography laureate facts: Facts laureate lecture: Lecture given name: Willard family name: Boyle occupation: photographer occupation: physicist occupation: inventor field of work: physics work location: Bell Labs, Murray Hill, United States of America description: Willard Boyle was a Canadian physicist, pioneer in the field of laser technology and co-inventor of the charge-coupled device. On October 6, 2009, it was announced that he would share the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for "the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit—the CCD sensor, which has become an electronic eye in almost all areas of photography". image copyright: © The Nobel Foundation. Photo: U. Montan image citation: The Nobel Prize in Physics 2009. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2009/summary/> date birth: 1924 date death: 2011 usual name: Willard Boyle
