高锟获奖港科研注强心针
作为「半个香港人」的高锟夺得诺贝尔奖,给本港学术界带来极大鼓舞。不少香港学者及高等教育界人士均表示,高锟得奖除了增强大家对香港科研的信心,也证明从事科研工作,需要有长远的规划和耐心。有学者认为,目前政府及工业界给予科研的支持不足,离高锟期许的「先进数码城市(advanced digital city)」仍有很长的路要走。
中大校长刘遵义昨向全体中大师生发表公开信,指高锟获奖实至名归,是中大、全港、全国以至所有华人的天大喜讯,所有中大人均深以其辉煌成就为荣。他还赞扬高锟对中大贡献卓越,认为该校成为区内以至国际上教研皆具份量的学府,高锟居功尤伟。
高锟担任中大校长期间,成立了多个研究所及工程、教育两学院。中大工程学院(科研)副院长蒙美玲表示,她在1997年时曾因撰书访问高锟,谈论「Made by Hong Kong(香港制造)」的话题。当时他认为香港地方虽小,但政府愿意推广高科技、市民喜欢尝试使用新产品,故香港若能保持不断进步的势头,便可成为先进数码城市(advanced digital city)」的典范。但她坦言,目前离高锟设想的目标仍很遥远,「大家都很清楚,现在投放于技术转移的资源并不多。」
Dr. Willard Boyle 和George Smith(右)
目录
• 个人简介
• 三位科学家分享诺贝尔物理奖 高锟获一半奖金
• 电荷耦合元件
• 现代天文仪器之CCD
• 参考文献
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个人简介编辑本段回目录Willard Sterling Boyle (born August 19, 1924) is a Canadian physicist and co-inventor of the Charge-coupled device. He was awarded a quarter-share in the the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for "the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit – the CCD sensor".
Born in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Boyle served in the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II but did not see active service. He gained a BSc (1947), MSc (1948) and PhD (1950) from McGill University.
After receiving his doctorate Boyle spent one year at Canada's Radiation Lab and two years teaching physics at the Royal Military College of Canada. In 1953 Boyle joined Bell Labs where he invented the first continuously operating ruby laser with Don Nelson in 1962, and was named on the first patent for a semiconductor injection laser. He was made director of Space Science and Exploratory Studies at the Bell labs subsidiary Bellcomm in 1962, providing support for the Apollo space program and helping to select lunar landing sites. He returned to Bell Labs in 1964, working on the development of integrated circuits.
In 1969, Boyle and George E. Smith invented the Charge-coupled device (CCD), for which they have been joint recipients of the Franklin Institute’s Stuart Ballantine Medal in 1973, the 1974 IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award, the 2006 Charles Stark Draper Prize, and the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Boyle was Executive Director of Research for Bell Labs from 1975 to his retirement in 1979, when he moved back to Nova Scotia and served on the research council of the Canadian Institute of Advanced Research and the Science Council of the Province of Nova Scotia.
三位科学家分享诺贝尔物理奖 高锟获一半奖金编辑本段回目录