Willard S. Boyle (1924-2011)

Awarded the Prize “for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit—the CCD sensor.”

Willard S. Boyle was a Canadian Physicist who was born on 19 August 1924 in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada. He gained a BSc (1947), MSc (1948) Ph.D. (1950) from McGill University. He worked in Bell Labs before. Boyle died in Wallace, Nova Scotia of Canada on May 7, 2011.