Willard Boyle was a Canadian physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2009. He was born on August 19, 1924, in Amherst, Canada. Boyle earned his PhD from McGill University in Canada and served in the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II. He worked at Bell Labs in the United States, ultimately retiring in 1979 as the executive director of the communication sciences department. Notably, in 1969, Boyle co-invented the charge-coupled device (CCD) with George Smith, a crucial technology for digital cameras.
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Meaning of the name - Willard
strong-willed, determined
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Place of Birth: Amherst
Place of Death: Wallace
Cause of Death: kidney disease
Educated At: Lower Canada College | McGill University
Occupation: executive | inventor | physicist | photographer | scientist
Employers: Bell Labs
Awards Received: Great Immigrants Award | Edwin H. Land Medal | Companion of the Order of Canada | Stuart Ballantine Medal | National Inventors Hall of Fame | Charles Stark Draper Prize | IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award | Nobel Prize in Physics
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Note: Moon position is location and time sensitive.| Planet | Position (Tropical, Western) | Transits on August 19, 2024 | Secondary Progressions for August 19, 2024 |
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| Sun | 26 Leo 19 | 27 Leo 7 | 5 Sagittarius 7 |
| Moon | 25 Aries 28 | 25 Aquarius 0 | 17 Sagittarius 47 |
| Mercury | 23 Virgo 12 | 26 Leo 7 | 22 Sagittarius 33 |
| Venus | 12 Cancer 37 | 17 Virgo 50 | 0 Scorpio 10 |
| Mars | 1 Pisces 19 | 19 Gemini 54 | 17 Pisces 28 |
| Jupiter | 10 Sagittarius 4 | 17 Gemini 24 | 25 Sagittarius 10 |
| Saturn | 28 Libra 16 | 17 Pisces 23 | 9 Scorpio 11 |
| Uranus | 20 Pisces 27 | 27 Taurus 12 | 17 Pisces 35 |
| Neptune | 20 Leo 21 | 29 Pisces 20 | 22 Leo 35 |
| Pluto | 12 Cancer 58 | 0 Aquarius 14 | 13 Cancer 11 |
| Rahu | 22 Leo 44 | 8 Aries 36 | 17 Leo 27 |
| Ketu | 22 Aquarius 44 | 8 Libra 36 | 17 Aquarius 27 |
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