2009 Nobel Prize winner... At my wedding :)

cbrchick · 10-06-2009, 07:09 AM

Perhaps there are a few nerds out there that might get a kick out of this. This gentleman is a friend of the family. He lives in my parents village of 300. Read some good news this morning. He's a lot of fun to talk to and makes mean martini... besides being brilliant.

N.S. scientist shares 2009 Nobel physics prize
Willard S. Boyle, two Americans win award for fibre optic breakthrough
By The Canadian Press
Tue. Oct 6 - 7:44 AM

STOCKHOLM, Sweden — A Canadian-born physicist and two Americans have been awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in physics.

Willard S. Boyle who was born in Amherst, N.S., Charles K. Kao and George E. Smith won the US$1.4 million prize for breakthroughs involving the transmission of light in fibre optics and inventing an imaging semiconductor circuit.

After receiving his doctorate from McGill University in Montreal, Boyle spent a year at Canada's Radiation Lab and two years teaching physics at the Royal Military College of Canada.

In 1953 he joined Bell Labs where he invented the first continuously operating ruby laser with Don Nelson in 1962, and was named on the first patent for a semiconductor injection laser.

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He was made director of Space Science and Exploratory Studies at the Bell labs subsidiary Bellcomm in 1962, providing support for the Apollo space program and helping to select lunar landing sites. He returned to Bell Labs in 1964, working on the development of integrated circuits.

In 1969, Boyle and Smith invented the Charge-coupled device.

Boyle retired in 1979, when he moved back to Nova Scotia and served on the research council of the Canadian Institute of Advanced Research and the Science Council of the Province of Nova Scotia.

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