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Willard Boyle

Canadian physicist and inventor (1924–2011)

  • Fame55.5
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Lived 1924–2011, aged 87Canada
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    67 languages
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  • Era
    1924–2011
    Aged 87
  • Awards
    8
    recognised works
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Updated 2026-06-21

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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