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Willard Boyle

1924 - 2011

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Willard Sterling Boyle, (August 19, 1924 – May 7, 2011) was a Canadian physicist. He was a pioneer in the field of laser technology and co-inventor of the charge-coupled device. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Willard Boyle has received more than 198,048 page views. His biography is available in 64 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). Willard Boyle is the 150th most popular physicist (up from 159th in 2019), the 20th most popular biography from Canada (up from 26th in 2019) and the most popular Canadian Physicist.

Willard Boyle was most famous for his work with John Bardeen and Walter Brattain in the invention of the transistor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 200k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 71.11

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 64

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 19.01

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.91

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Willard Boyle ranks 150 out of 851. Before him are Jacques Charles, Georges Charpak, Pavel Cherenkov, Hannes Alfvén, Simon van der Meer, and Karl Schwarzschild. After him are Johann Jakob Balmer, Albert Fert, Hans Geiger, Maurice Wilkins, Arthur Compton, and Georg Christoph Lichtenberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Willard Boyle ranks 25. Before him are Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Maurice Jarre, Benny Hill, Georges Charpak, Jovanka Broz, and Ramiz Alia. After him are Roger Guillemin, Robert Solow, James Baldwin, Mário Soares, Sidney Lumet, and Kōbō Abe. Among people deceased in 2011, Willard Boyle ranks 21. Before him are Annie Girardot, Ágota Kristóf, Flórián Albert, Rudolf Mössbauer, Ramiz Alia, and Simon van der Meer. After him are Dennis Ritchie, John Barry, Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, Sidney Lumet, Burhanuddin Rabbani, and Jane Russell.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Willard Boyle ranks 20 out of 1,622. Before him are Marshall McLuhan (1911), Margaret Atwood (1939), David Cronenberg (1943), James Naismith (1861), Glenn Gould (1932), and Eric Berne (1910). After him are Frederick Banting (1891), Michael J. Fox (1961), Gilles Villeneuve (1950), William Giauque (1895), Saul Bellow (1915), and Neil Young (1945).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Canada

Among physicists born in Canada, Willard Boyle ranks 1. After him are Richard E. Taylor (1929), Bertram Brockhouse (1918), Jim Peebles (1935), Donna Strickland (1959), Louis Slotin (1910), Arthur Jeffrey Dempster (1886), Harriet Brooks (1876), Paul Corkum (1943), and Sylvia Fedoruk (1927).

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