Willard S. Boyle
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2009.
Born: 19, Aug, 1924, Amherst NS, Canada
Died: 7, May, 2011, Truro NS, Canada
Prize motivation: "for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit - the CCD sensor"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ, USA
Prize share: 1/4