Uploaded December 2017 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
At the heart of the digital camera is a charge coupled device (CCD), which transformed photography from a chemical process into a digital one. Canadian physicist Willard Boyle (1924–2011) helped invent the CCD while working at Bell Labs in the 1960s and shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the CCD.
Visit Innovation150.ca for more stories of Canadian innovation. A video from Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation
At the heart of the digital camera is a charge coupled device (CCD), which transformed photography from a chemical process into a digital one. Canadian physicist Willard Boyle (1924–2011) helped invent the CCD while working at Bell Labs in the 1960s and shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the CCD.
Visit Innovation150.ca for more stories of Canadian innovation. A video from Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation
