The AstroStat Slog » Willard Boyle http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog Weaving together Astronomy+Statistics+Computer Science+Engineering+Intrumentation, far beyond the growing borders Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:05:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 Boyle & Smith (1969) http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2009/boyle-smith-1969/ http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2009/boyle-smith-1969/#comments Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:41:44 +0000 vlk http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/?p=3770 The 2009 Physics Nobel is shared (along with Charles Kao, who is cited for suggesting optic fibers) by Willard Boyle and George Smith, inventors of the Charge-coupled Device.

The CCD, of course, is the workhorse of modern Astronomy. I cannot even imagine how things would be without it.

Actually, Boyle & Smith (1970, Bell Systems Technical Journal, 49, 587) and Amelio, Tompsett & Smith (1970, Bell Systems Tech. J., 49, 593), according to the detailed cite by the Nobel committee.

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