Robert Allen Pease was an electronics engineer known for analog integrated circuit design, and as the author of technical books and articles about electronic design.
17 Facts About Bob Pease
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Bob Pease designed several very successful "best-seller" ICs, many of them in continuous production for multiple decades.
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Bob Pease was born on August 22,1940 in Rockville, Connecticut.
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Bob Pease attended Northfield Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts, and subsequently obtained a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1961.
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Bob Pease started work in the early 1960s at George A Philbrick Researches.
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At GAP-R, Bob Pease developed many high-performance op-amps, built with discrete solid-state components.
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In 1976, Bob Pease moved to National Semiconductor Corporation as a Design and Applications Engineer, where he began designing analog monolithic ICs, as well as design reference circuits using these devices.
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Bob Pease had advanced to Staff Engineer by the time of his departure in 2009.
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The last project Bob Pease worked on was the THOR-LVX microtron Advanced Explosives contraband Detection System: "A Dual-Purpose Ion-Accelerator for Nuclear-Reaction-Based Explosives-and SNM-Detection in Massive Cargo".
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Bob Pease was the author of eight books, including Troubleshooting Analog Circuits, and he held 21 patents.
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Bob Pease's writing was "strongly opinionated, but he could communicate with a wry sense of humor that endeared him to readers whether they agreed with him or not".
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Bob Pease was killed in the crash of his 1969 Volkswagen Beetle, on June 18,2011.
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Bob Pease was leaving a gathering in memory of Jim Williams, who was another well-known analog circuit designer, a technical author, and a renowned staff engineer working at Linear Technology.
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Bob Pease was 70 years old, and was survived by his wife, two sons, and three grandchildren.
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The sudden death of Bob Pease triggered a small flood of remembrances and tributes from fellow technical writers, practicing engineers, and electronics hardware hacking enthusiasts.
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Bob Pease was notorious for his design chops, but for his messy office.
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Bob Pease sold it to National and threw a pizza party with the money.