Bob was a legendary engineer in every sense of the word, considered to be one of the greatest hardware engineers of all time. He was also rather quirky! Who doesn’t love a quirky engineer 😛 Many considered him more of an artist than an engineer, and really at the time there was a lot of artistry to analog IC design. One of his many famous designs is the Fairchild uA702, the FIRST linear IC operational amplifier released in 1964, that’s right he is the inventor of the first commercial op-amp a category of device which is still ubiquitously used!