Willard S. Boyle, the person

[M.T. Al-Mansouri, Ph.D.]

Condensed Matter Physics, crystals, magnets, superconductors, semiconductors Co-Inventor of the Charge Coupled Device for which he won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics "Know how to judge when to persevere and when to quit. If you're going to do something, do it well. You don't have to be better than everyone else, but you ought to do your personal best." The Story The Science Career Advice The Person Birthdate August 19, 1924 Birthplace Amherst, Nova Scotia Residence Wallace, Nova Scotia Family Members Mother: Bernice Dewar Father: Ernest Boyle Spouse: Betty, landscape artist and community gallery founder. Children: Robert, Cynthia, David, Pamela Personality Adventurous, clever, curious Other Interests Sailing, skiing Title Physicist; Retired former Executive Director of Research, Communications Sciences Division, Bell Labs in New Jersey Office Communication Sciences Division, Bell Laboratories, New Jersey Degrees BSc, McGill, 1947 MSc, McGill, 1948 PhD (Physics), McGill, 1950 Awards The Ballantyne Medal of the Franklin Institute, 1973 Morris Lieberman Award of the IEEE, 1974 Progress Medal of The Photographic Society of America Breakthrough Award by the Device Research Conference of the IEEE Co-winner, C&C prize of the NEC Foundation, Tokyo, 1999 Edwin H. Land Medal, Optical Society of America, 2001 Canadian Science & Engineering Hall of Fame, 2005 Nobel Prize, Physics, 2009 Mentor Mother who homeschooled him till grade 9 Mr. Bailey, high-school teacher who taught confidence Lester Germer, Bell Labs supervisor for introduction to culture. Source: http://www.science.ca