George A. Philbrick, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetGeorge A. Philbrick
American engineer
Date of Birth: 05-Jan-1913
Date of Death: 01-Dec-1974
Profession: engineer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About George A. Philbrick
- George A.
- Philbrick was responsible, through his company George A.
- Philbrick Researches (GAP/R), for the 1953 commercialization and wide adoption of operational amplifiers, a now-ubiquitous component of analog electronic systems, and the invention and commercialization of electronic analog computers based on the operational amplifier principle.
- The invention, or co-invention, of the operational amplifier has also been credited to a number of other people, including a war-needs driven Bell Labs team led by Clarence A.
- Lovell (C.
- A.
- Lovell et al., 1940 ff.) and Loebe Julie.The actual naming of the operational amplifier likely occurred in the classic 1947 paper by John Ragazinni, et al.
- However analog computations using op amps as we know them today began with the work of the Clarence Lovell-led war needs group at Bell Labs, around 1940 (acknowledged generally in John Ragazinni's paper).
- In 1952, George A.
- Philbrick Researches (GAP/R) introduces the K2-W, considered the “Model T” of op amps.
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