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    Willard Sterling Boyle, CC (August 19, 1924 – May 7, 2011) was a Canadian physicist. He was a pioneer in the field of laser technology and co-inventor...
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    include people like William Shockley, Dennis Ritchie, Claude Shannon and Willard Boyle. Bell Labs became a subsidiary of AT&T Technologies in 1984 after the...
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    used as the photodetector in early CCD devices. In the late 1960s, Willard Boyle and George E. Smith at Bell Labs were researching MOS technology while...
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  • Robert William Boyle (1883–1955), Canadian physicist, co-inventor of sonar Willard Boyle (1924–2011), Canadian physicist Brian Boyle (born 1984), professional...
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    tribute to Boyle, the annual event is hosted by Ray Romano and has included performances by many comedic veterans including Dana Carvey, Fred Willard, Martin...
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    sensor (CMOS sensor), used in digital imaging and digital cameras. Willard Boyle and George E. Smith developed the CCD in 1969. While researching the...
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    component in first-generation digital cameras. It was invented in 1969 by Willard Boyle and George E. Smith at AT&T Bell Labs as a memory device. The lab was...
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  • of Crossharbour KCSG LLD (hc) (born 1944) – entrepreneur, publisher Willard Boyle (1924–2011) – invented charge-coupled device Edgar Bronfman, Sr. (1929–2013)...
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    q-switching, to concentrate the output into a single pulse. In 1962, Willard Boyle, working at Bell Labs, produced the first continuous output from a ruby...
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    develops detection, recognition and identification modeling there. 1970: Willard Boyle and George E. Smith proposed CCD at Bell Labs for picture phone. 1973:...
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  • Alallahi Shah of Perak, 33rd Sultan of Perak (d. 1984) August 19 – Willard Boyle, Canadian physicist (d. 2011) August 21 – Dalia Wood, Canadian politician...
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    Literature – Herta Müller Peace – Barack Obama Physics – Charles K. Kao, Willard Boyle, and George E. Smith Physiology or Medicine – Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol...
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  • Norman Cohen (1935–), U.S. – created first Genetically modified organism Willard Boyle (1924–2011) together with George E. Smith (born 1930), U.S. – Charge-coupled...
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  • The name Willard may refer to: Aaron Willard (1757–1844), Boston industrialist Adam Willard, (born 1973), drummer Aimee Willard (1974–1996), murder victim...
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    correspondent (October 6, 2009). "Charles Kuen Kao, George Smith and Willard Boyle win Nobel for physics". The Guardian. Archived from the original on...
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  • department. George E. Smith shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics with Willard Boyle for "the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit—the CCD sensor...
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  • BCL 1950). Co-inventor of the CCD and Nobel prize laureate in Physics Willard Boyle (BSc, 1947; MSc 1948; PhD 1950). Emmy Award winner known for his portrayal...
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    and eventually headed the VLSI device department. In 1969, Smith and Willard Boyle invented the charge-coupled device (CCD), for which they have jointly...
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    lamivudine, a drug used in the treatment of HIV and Hepatitis B infection Willard Boyle – inventor of the charge-coupled device Thomas Chang – creator of the...
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    Fulton and Jess Willard to fight in the state. After retiring as governor, he served as publisher of the Nevada State Journal. Boyle died on January 3...
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    called Sand Hill. Roger Stuart Bacon, former Premier of Nova Scotia Willard Boyle, co-inventor of the charge-coupled device (CCD) Bill Casey, politician...
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  • Paul D. Boyer Chemistry 1997 University of California, Los Angeles Willard Boyle Physics 2009 Bell Labs Lawrence Bragg Physics 1915 Victoria University...
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  • (b. 1923) 2011 – Seve Ballesteros, Spanish golfer (b. 1957) 2011 – Willard Boyle, Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1924) 2011...
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  • David Angus Alex Anthopoulos René Balcer Peter Behrens Gerald Birks Willard Boyle John Brownstein Brooke Claxton James Campbell Clouston Wade Davis Arnold...
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  • a river journey from South Vietnam into Cambodia undertaken by Captain Willard (Martin Sheen), who is on a secret mission to assassinate Colonel Kurtz...
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  • Lidia Bastianich Chef Croatia Elizabeth Blackburn Researcher Australia Willard Boyle Physicist Canada Yefim Bronfman Pianist Uzbekistan Denise Scott Brown...
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    sensor. While researching metal–oxide–semiconductor (MOS) technology, Willard Boyle and George E. Smith realized that an electric charge could be stored...
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  • computer scientist, inventor of relational model of data (d. 2003) 1924 – Willard Boyle, Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011) 1924...
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  • Siminovitch (1920–) Ursula Franklin (1921–2016) Gerald Hatch (1922–2014) Willard Boyle (1924–2011), inducted in 2005 Ernest McCulloch (1926–2011), inducted...
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    Jess Myron Willard (December 29, 1881 – December 15, 1968) was an American world heavyweight boxing champion billed as the Pottawatomie Giant. He won...
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