Willard S. Boyle dies at 86; a father of the digital camera

Willard S. Boyle shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in physics for the invention at Bell Labs of the imaging device that is at the heart of digital cameras. He also helped develop widely used lasers and earned more than a dozen patents.Willard S. Boyle, who shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in physics for the invention of the revolutionary imaging device that is at the heart of digital cameras of all descriptions, died May 7 at a hospital in his home town of Wallace, Canada. He was 86 and had been suffering from kidney disease, friends said.

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