Dead "father" of a digital camera

In the United States at the age of 86 years died physicist Vilyard Sterling Boyle (Willard Sterling Boyle), known as the creator of the CCD-matrix and a digital camera. Date of death was not named, reported that it happened in the city Volles in Nova Scotia. The most famous invention Vilyard Boyle made jointly with another physicist, George Smith (George E. Smith) in autumn 1969 while working at Bell Laboratories. Scientists working on charge-coupled devices (CCDs), as over a possible technology for computer memory. However, a more appropriate device was obtained for use in the development of fundamentally new devices such as scanners, cameras and compact cameras, built on new principles. The inventors were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for the creation of CCD-matrix in 2009.

In addition to the CCD, Vilyard Boyle is known for participation in the development of ruby ​​and semiconductor diode lasers. In addition, a scientist involved in the lunar program NASA, helping to identify possible sites reentry module. All he is the author of 13 patents for inventions. In Vilyarda Boyle survived by his wife, son and two daughters, ten grandchildren and several great-grandchildren.