Canadian Nobel winner Willard Boyle dies at 86

[ChrisGreaves]

Toronto Star

Willard S. Boyle, who won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for helping to develop a device that is at the heart of virtually every camcorder, digital camera and telescope in use, died Saturday in Truro, N.S. He was 86.
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But nothing eclipsed his invention — in only an hour — of the charge-coupled device, or CCD, with George E. Smith, his colleague at Bell Laboratories.
The device, smaller than a dime, has become ubiquitous. It is the eye behind every picture on the Internet, every digital and video camera, every computer scanner, copier machine and high-definition television.

[BobH]

One wonders if a man so talented could have foreseen the far reaching impact of his device.

May he rest in Peace.