
Willard S. Boyle
Nobel Prize in Physics 2009
“for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit - the CCD sensor”
Willard S. Boyle was a physicist. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2009 for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit, the CCD sensor. The CCD sensor became widely used in digital imaging.
- Field
- Physics · Applied Physics
- Lifespan
- 1924–2011