Published “An Expanded View of Complex Traits: From Polygenic to Omnigenic” in Cell — cited 2,825 times.
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Willard Boyle
Willard Sterling Boyle was a Canadian applied physicist who shared one half of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics with George E. Smith for their invention of the charge-coupled device.
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science · Canadian physicist (1924–2011) · physicist · inventor · photographer · scientist · executive · also Willard Boyle, Willard Sterling Boyle, Willard S. Boyle, Boyle
Born 19 August 1924 · Died 7 May 2011 · Q73058
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2017· 2 entries
Published “In-Datacenter Performance Analysis of a Tensor Processing Unit” in Proceedings of the 44th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture — cited 3,164 times.
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2016· 1 entry
Published “GW151226: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a 22-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence” in Physical Review Letters — cited 2,838 times.
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2011· 2 entries
At a hospital in Truro, Nova Scotia, at the age of 86
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Died 2011-05-07.
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2010· 1 entry
Awarded Great Immigrants Award (2010).
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2009· 2 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit - the CCD sensor.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (2009).
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2006· 2 entries
Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (2006).
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Awarded Charles Stark Draper Prize (2006).
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2003· 1 entry
Published “Osteoclast differentiation and activation” in Nature — cited 5,550 times.
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2001· 1 entry
Won Edwin H. Land Medal (2001).
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1999· 2 entries
Published “Measurements of Ω and Λ from 42 High‐Redshift Supernovae” in The Astrophysical Journal — cited 15,632 times.
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Published “OPGL is a key regulator of osteoclastogenesis, lymphocyte development and lymph-node organogenesis” in Nature — cited 2,765 times.
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1998· 1 entry
Published “Osteoprotegerin Ligand Is a Cytokine that Regulates Osteoclast Differentiation and Activation” in Cell — cited 4,439 times.
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1997· 1 entry
Published “Osteoprotegerin: A Novel Secreted Protein Involved in the Regulation of Bone Density” in Cell — cited 4,065 times.
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1974· 1 entry
Awarded IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award (1974).
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1973· 1 entry
Won Stuart Ballantine Medal (1973).
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1964· 1 entry
Working on the development of integrated circuits
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1962· 1 entry
Providing support for the Apollo space program and helping to select lunar landing sites
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1953· 1 entry
Boyle joined Bell Telephone Laboratories, where he invented the first continuously operating ruby laser with Don Nelson in 1962,
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1943· 1 entry
When he joined the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II
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1924· 2 entries
Born 1924-08-19.
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In Amherst, Nova Scotia, and moved to Quebec with his parents when he was about 2-years-old
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