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Karl D. Swartzel Jr.

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Karl Dale Swartzel Jr. (June 19, 1907 – April 23, 1998) was the inventor of the operational amplifier (or 'opamp'). He filed the patent for the 'summing amplifier' in 1941 when working at Bell Labs.[1]

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