How do transistors work, anyway?

Re:How do transistors work, anyway? by mhh__ on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @09:13AM (#33787797)

Bob Widlar also wrote an intro to semiconductors

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Re:How do transistors work, anyway? by abfan1127 on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @11:25AM (#33789572)

my undergraduate analog circuits professor worked with Bob Widlar. He had some great stories. Widlar was a pioneer!

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Re:How do transistors work, anyway? by gaze on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @12:12PM (#33790246)

It's an extremely underappreciated text

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Re:How do transistors work, anyway? by ce4 on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @01:21PM (#33791160)

That guy's career is a story unto itself:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Widlar

Edit - some nice reads:

https://hackaday.com/2014/04/08/heroes-of-hardware-revolutio...

https://web.archive.org/web/20190527014243/https://www.autod...

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Re:How do transistors work, anyway? by srvmshr on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @01:30PM (#33791284)

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.

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Re:How do transistors work, anyway? by weinzierl on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @02:34PM (#33792117)

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".

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