Willard S. Boyle of Nova Scotia, Canada won the Nobel Prize for Physics today. Without him this website wouldn't exist. He created the Charge-Coupled Device.

Newsworthy indeed.

Links:

3 Americans win Nobel in physics -- latimes.com (http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-nobel7-2009oct07,0,4906180.story?track=rss)

and

Willard Boyle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willard_Boyle)