deaths
Willard Boyle, Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1924)
Related Wikipedia articles
Willard Boyle
Canadian physicist (1924–2011)
Willard Sterling Boyle, was a Canadian physicist. He was a pioneer in the field of laser technology and co-inventor of the charge-coupled device. As director of Space Science and Exploratory Studies at Bellcomm he helped select lunar landing sites and provided support for the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Nobel Prize in Physics
One of five prizes established in 1895 by Alfred Nobel
The Nobel Prize in Physics is an annual award given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for those who have made the most outstanding contributions to mankind in the field of physics. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)