[ExI] Nobel homeschooled until 9th grade

[Stathis Papaioannou]

But the mother of the person who wrote the article for
homeschooling-network.com didn't teach him or her how to spell
"bachelor".

2009/12/12 Mirco Romanato <painlord2k at libero.it>:
> 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!
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