1924 - 2011
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 178,408 page views. His biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia. Willard Boyle is the 159th most popular physicist (up from 166th in 2019), the 26th most popular biography from Canada (up from 29th 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.
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Among physicists, Willard Boyle ranks 159 out of 717. Before him are Peter Grünberg, Val Logsdon Fitch, Nicolaas Bloembergen, Hugh Everett III, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, and Michio Kaku. After him are Murray Gell-Mann, Steven Weinberg, Donald A. Glaser, Polykarp Kusch, Laura Bassi, and Georges Charpak.
1939 - 2018
HPI: 64.92
Rank: 153
1923 - 2015
HPI: 64.82
Rank: 154
1920 - 2017
HPI: 64.81
Rank: 155
1930 - 1982
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 156
1910 - 1995
HPI: 64.73
Rank: 157
1947 - Present
HPI: 64.69
Rank: 158
1924 - 2011
HPI: 64.68
Rank: 159
1929 - 2019
HPI: 64.65
Rank: 160
1933 - 2021
HPI: 64.63
Rank: 161
1926 - 2013
HPI: 64.54
Rank: 162
1911 - 1993
HPI: 64.48
Rank: 163
1711 - 1778
HPI: 64.47
Rank: 164
1924 - 2010
HPI: 64.47
Rank: 165
Among people born in 1924, Willard Boyle ranks 25. Before him are Lauren Bacall, Ramiz Alia, Maurice Jarre, Sergei Parajanov, Henry Mancini, and Mário Soares. After him are Sidney Lumet, Georges Charpak, Jovanka Broz, Ezer Weizman, Lee Marvin, and Robert Solow. Among people deceased in 2011, Willard Boyle ranks 24. Before him are Ramiz Alia, Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, Flórián Albert, Gary Moore, Rudolf Mössbauer, and Dennis Ritchie. After him are Sidney Lumet, John Barry, Necmettin Erbakan, Norman Foster Ramsey Jr., Christa Wolf, and Lynn Margulis.
1924 - 2014
HPI: 66.94
Rank: 19
1924 - 2011
HPI: 66.66
Rank: 20
1924 - 2009
HPI: 66.40
Rank: 21
1924 - 1990
HPI: 65.92
Rank: 22
1924 - 1994
HPI: 65.69
Rank: 23
1924 - 2017
HPI: 65.09
Rank: 24
1924 - 2011
HPI: 64.68
Rank: 25
1924 - 2011
HPI: 64.63
Rank: 26
1924 - 2010
HPI: 64.47
Rank: 27
1924 - 2013
HPI: 64.06
Rank: 28
1924 - 2005
HPI: 63.74
Rank: 29
1924 - 1987
HPI: 63.68
Rank: 30
1924 - 2023
HPI: 63.66
Rank: 31
1924 - 2011
HPI: 66.66
Rank: 18
1921 - 2011
HPI: 66.22
Rank: 19
1941 - 2011
HPI: 66.18
Rank: 20
1952 - 2011
HPI: 65.53
Rank: 21
1929 - 2011
HPI: 64.92
Rank: 22
1941 - 2011
HPI: 64.90
Rank: 23
1924 - 2011
HPI: 64.68
Rank: 24
1924 - 2011
HPI: 64.63
Rank: 25
1933 - 2011
HPI: 64.46
Rank: 26
1926 - 2011
HPI: 63.79
Rank: 27
1915 - 2011
HPI: 63.33
Rank: 28
1929 - 2011
HPI: 63.26
Rank: 29
1938 - 2011
HPI: 63.23
Rank: 30
Among people born in Canada, Willard Boyle ranks 26 out of 1,350. Before him are David Cronenberg (1943), Eric Berne (1910), Saul Bellow (1915), William Shatner (1931), Gilles Villeneuve (1950), and Dan Aykroyd (1952). After him are Neil Young (1945), Robert Mundell (1932), Oswald Avery (1877), John Kenneth Galbraith (1908), Bryan Adams (1959), and Pierre Trudeau (1919).
1943 - Present
HPI: 66.73
Rank: 20
1910 - 1970
HPI: 66.35
Rank: 21
1915 - 2005
HPI: 66.32
Rank: 22
1931 - Present
HPI: 66.13
Rank: 23
1950 - 1982
HPI: 65.59
Rank: 24
1952 - Present
HPI: 64.98
Rank: 25
1924 - 2011
HPI: 64.68
Rank: 26
1945 - Present
HPI: 64.41
Rank: 27
1932 - 2021
HPI: 64.27
Rank: 28
1877 - 1955
HPI: 63.95
Rank: 29
1908 - 2006
HPI: 63.78
Rank: 30
1959 - Present
HPI: 63.77
Rank: 31
1919 - 2000
HPI: 63.74
Rank: 32
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), and Sylvia Fedoruk (1927).
1924 - 2011
HPI: 64.68
Rank: 1
1929 - 2018
HPI: 63.29
Rank: 2
1918 - 2003
HPI: 62.10
Rank: 3
1935 - Present
HPI: 61.69
Rank: 4
1959 - Present
HPI: 56.57
Rank: 5
1910 - 1946
HPI: 55.96
Rank: 6
1886 - 1950
HPI: 51.06
Rank: 7
1876 - 1933
HPI: 43.54
Rank: 8
1927 - 2012
HPI: 37.04
Rank: 9