[ExI] Nobel homeschooled until 9th grade

[Mirco Romanato]

I tripped over this:
http://homeschooling-network.com/NewsArticles/Default.aspx
http://www.science.ca/scientists/scientistprofile.php?pID=129&pg=3

> Homeschooled Physics Nobel Prize Winner Without Dr. Boyle, there
> would be no digital photography
>
> Homeschooling Swede The 2009 Nobel Prize Winners were announced
> recently, and includes a homeschooled Physics Nobel Prize Winner: Dr.
> Willard S. Boyle. He received the prize principally for the invention
> of the Charged Coupled Device (CCD) that captures digital images used
> in digital cameras and cellular/handheld phones, as well as numerous
> other applications such as the Hubble Telescope.
>
> Dr. Boyle was born in 1924 In Nova Scotia Canada, where he was
> homescholed by his mother up to ninth grade. He studied at Lower
> Canada College in Montreal, and graduated at McGill University with
> his Batchelor's degree. He credits his success to his stated number
> one mentor: his mother who homeschooled him. After his Batchelor's
> degree he received: an MS, and a PhD in Physics. He was later the
> executive director of Communications Sciences Division, Bell Labs in
> New Jersey. He is described as: "Adventurous, clever, curious" on the
> candian science website: www.science.ca
>
> He received the Nobel prize jointly with Dr. George E. Smith,
> principally for inventing the Charged Coupled Device (CCD). These are
> used today to take digital photographs, and can be found in hand-held
> phones, digital cameras, as well as in telescopes such as the Hubble
> Telescope. The MegaPixel number we know about on digital cameras and
> phones, is the number of how many million pixels are on the CCD that
> Dr. Boyle jointly invented. Without the CCD, digitial phootograhy
> would not exist.
>
> He is famously quoted as saying: "Know how to judge when to persevere
> and when to quit. If you’re going to do something, do it well. You
> don’t have to be better than everyone else, but you ought to do your
> personal best.”
>
> Dr. Boyle shows the major contribution that homeschooled people can
> make in the world, even though we are few in number. Why not tell
> your friends that their digital camera wouldn't haven't been invented
> without the work of a homeschooled Physicist!

Mirco
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