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Bob Widlar also wrote an intro to semiconductors

• abfan1127 4y ago
  my undergraduate analog circuits professor worked with Bob Widlar. He had some great stories. Widlar was a pioneer!
• gaze 4y ago
  It's an extremely underappreciated text
• ce4 4y ago
  That guy's career is a story unto itself: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Widlar https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Widlar Edit - some nice reads: https://hackaday.com/2014/04/08/heroes-of-hardware-revolution-bob-widlar/ https://hackaday.com/2014/04/08/heroes-of-hardware-revolutio... https://web.archive.org/web/20190527014243/https://www.autodesk.com/products/eagle/blog/bob-widlar-life-engineering-legend/ https://web.archive.org/web/20190527014243/https://www.autod...
  • srvmshr 4y ago
    If I could think of anyone being Rick Sanchez (of Rick & Morty) in real life, it had to be Bob Widlar: Brash, extremely genius & mostly drunk.
  • weinzierl 4y ago
    I like how he had his retirement period in the middle of his life and not at the end. This quote in the section about his retirement in the Wikipedia article made me chuckle: His proud statement: "I don't work" caused him frequent troubles when crossing the Mexican border and eventually, Widlar created a set of fake business cards presenting him as a "road agent" for "Morgan Associates".