Willard Boyle

Willard Boyle
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Willard Boyle CC
	Boyle in 2009
Born	Willard Sterling Boyle; August 19, 1924; Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada
Died	May 7, 2011 (aged 86); Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada
Citizenship	Canada; United States;
Education	Lower Canada College
Alma mater	McGill University (BSc, MSc, PhD)
Known for	Invention of the CCD
Spouse	Betty Boyle (m. 1946)
Children	4
Awards	Stuart Ballantine Medal (1973); IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award (1974); C&C Prize (1999); Edwin H. Land Medal (2001); Charles Stark Draper Prize (2006); Nobel Prize in Physics (2009);
	Scientific career
Fields	Solid-state physics
Institutions	Bell Telephone Laboratories
Thesis	The construction of a Dempster type mass spectrometer: its use in the measurement of the diffusion rates of certain alkali metals in tungsten (1950)
Doctoral advisor	H. G. I. Watson

Willard Sterling Boyle (August 19, 1924 – May 7, 2011) 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.

As director of Space Science and Exploratory Studies at Bellcomm, Boyle helped select lunar landing sites and provided support for the Apollo space program.