The inventor of CCD Willard Boyle died.

Willard Boyle, a Nobel Prize winner from amerster, Nova se, Canada, whose achievements paved the way for digital photography and died at the age of 86 on May 7, 2011.

Because of his revolutionary significance in semiconductor circuit imaging, Boyle won the Nobel Physics Award in 2009.

His old friend Ron Macnutt, A camberland lawyer, mentioned that Boyle is very proud of this honor and has long hoped to win this award.

"We have already celebrated several times in the community. One of them was in the local high school. When talking to the children, he said he had some regrets, this honor has come a little late, otherwise he can go out and do more, "says macnut.

"If you get this opportunity early, it may affect more people ."

In December 20, 1974, George Smith, the researcher Willard Boyle (left), studied the charge coupler, which converts the light pattern into useful numerical information. (Alcatel-Lucent/Bell lab/Associated Press)

Boyle had a disagreement with Halifax and Wallace in his later years. Boyle was born in Amherst in 1924 and moved to Quebec in his childhood so that his father could become a doctor in a timber camp. He received his mother's family education at home until he went to the high school at the University of SWAT.

During the Second World War, he drove a jet fighter as a royal Canadian naval ship air.

After the war, Boyle returned to school and completed his doctorate degree in physics at the University of magir in Canada in 1950. Before joining Bell Labs in New Jersey, he taught physics at Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario.

He and George E. Smith and Gao Yu won the Nobel Physics award for "breakthrough achievements.

"When you wake up, some people say that you have won the Nobel Prize. They told you in the last minute that this is the biggest surprise in your life," Boyle said to CBC news during the award.

The findings of scientists include the transfer of light in optical fiber in optical communication, the invention of a charge-coupled device (CCD sensor), CCD is an imaging semiconductor circuit and is considered the eyes of a digital camera.

The results of these three scientists "created many practical innovations in daily life and provided new tools for scientific exploration", wrote in their award-winning proverbs.

This technique, invented by Boyle, is also commonly used in medical imaging and astronomy.

 

From: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2011/05/08/willard-boyle-obituary.html