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Willard Sterling Boyle, (August 19, 1924May 7, 2011) was a Canadian-American physicist,〔 〕 pioneer in the field of laser technology and co-inventor of the charge-coupled device.〔 〕 On October 6, 2009, it was announced that he would share the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for "the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit—the CCD sensor, which has become an electronic eye in almost all areas of photography".〔 ==Life== Born in Amherst, Nova Scotia, on August 19, 1924, Boyle was the son of a medical doctor and moved to Quebec with his father and mother Beatrice when he was three.〔 〕 He was home schooled by his mother until age fourteen, when he attended Montreal's Lower Canada College to complete his secondary education.〔 Boyle attended McGill University, but his education was interrupted in 1943, when he joined the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II.〔 He was loaned to the Britain's Royal Navy, where he was learning how to land Spitfires on aircraft carriers as the war ended.〔 He gained a BSc (1947), MSc (1948) and PhD (1950) from McGill University.〔 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Willard Boyle」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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