Monday, October 5, 2009

News article: Willard s. Boyle

http://news.aol.ca/article/canadian-born-scientist-wins-nobel-physics-prize/716695/
A scientist born in New Amherst, N.S, is sharing the noble prize in Physics for his work in developing the sensor that is widely used in digital cameras. Willard S. Boyle will share the award with George E. Smith and Charles Kao for their “ground breaking achievements” in physics, the Royal Swedish Academy announced. Boyle and Smith, 79, they invented the first charge-coupled device, which is a semiconductor circuit that transforms light into electric signals that produce a large number of image points, or pixels, in a short time, the technology is also commonly used in medical imaging. Digital photography has become an irreplaceable tool in many fields of research, the digital camera is important to research. And also these days everyone has a digital camera you can’t go wrong with it. The CCD has provided new possibilities to visualize the previously unseen. It has given us crystal clear images of distant places in our universe as well as the depths of the oceans. This is really good so researchers can explore the universe better that before. The device was also used in the Mars Rover on the moon to capture images Boyle is most proud of telescopic applications. He was also born in Amherst in 1924 so this article is about the invention on the sensor most commonly used in digital cameras.

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