Ray Dolby
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American engineer and inventor of the Dolby noise reduction system (1933-2013)
Key facts
- Born
- Ray Milton Dolby , ( 1933-01-18 ) January 18, 1933, Portland, Oregon , U.S.
- Died
- September 12, 2013 (2013-09-12) (aged 80), San Francisco , California, U.S.
- Education
- Stanford University ( BE ), Pembroke College, Cambridge ( PhD )
- Spouse
- Dagmar Bäumert ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1966 )
- Children
- Tom Dolby David Dolby
- Discipline
- Electrical engineering , physics
- Institutions
- Dolby Laboratories
- Projects
- Dolby NR
- Significant design
- Surround sound
- Awards
- National Medal of Technology (1997) Honorary Officer of the Order of the British Empire (1987) Marshall Scholarship (1961)
- Branch
- United States Army
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Portland
- Place of death
- San Francisco
- Occupation
- civil engineer
- Educated at
- Pembroke College
- Employer
- Dolby
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Image
- RayDolby.jpeg
- Number of children
- 2
- Residence
- San Francisco
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- cause of death
- leukemia
- date of death
- 2013-09-12
- medical condition
- Alzheimer's disease
- Commons category
- Ray Dolby
- date of birth
- 1933-01-18
- birth name
- Ray Milton Dolby
- manner of death
- natural causes
- Commons Creator page
- Ray Dolby
- name in native language
- Ray Milton Dolby
- interested in
- electrical engineering
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Encyclopedic overview
Ray Milton Dolby (/ˈdoʊlbi, ˈdɒl-/; January 18, 1933 – September 12, 2013) was an American engineer and inventor of the noise reduction system known as Dolby NR, which has been said to have "transformed sound reproduction".
In the 1950s he contributed to development of the video tape recorder while at Ampex, and in 1965 he founded Dolby Laboratories in London. There he invented and patented a method of noise reduction for use in analog recording which was widely adopted for the cassette tape. The company moved to California in 1976 and went on to develop audio and video formats for films, home video recorders, home theater, television broadcasts, and video streaming services.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ray Dolby” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.