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Amar Bose
	1929-2013
Visionary engineer, inventor and billionaire entrepreneur Amar Bose, whose namesake company, the Bose Corp, became synonymous with high-quality audio systems and speakers for home users, auditoriums and automobiles, has died at his home in Wayland, in the US state of Massachusetts. He was 83.
As founder and chairman of the privately held company, Bose focused relentlessly on acoustic-engineering innovation. His speakers, although expensive, earned a reputation for bringing concert-hall-quality audio into the home.
And by refusing to offer stock to the public, Bose was able to pursue risky long-term research, such as noise-cancelling headphones and an innovative suspension system for cars without the pressures of quarterly earnings announcements.
In a 2004 interview in Popular Science magazine, he said: "I would have been fired a hundred times at a company run by MBAs. But I never went into business to make money.
"I went into business so that I could do interesting things that hadn't been done before."
A perfectionist and a devotee of classical music, Bose was disappointed by the inferior sound of a high-priced stereo system he purchased when he was an engineering student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the 1950s.
His interest in acoustic engineering piqued, he realised that 80 per cent of the sound experienced in a concert hall was indirect, meaning that it bounced off walls and ceilings before reaching the audience. This realisation, using basic concepts of physics, formed the basis of his research.
In the early 1960s, Bose invented a type of speaker based on psychoacoustics, the study of sound perception. His design incorporated multiple small speakers aimed at the surrounding walls, rather than directly at the listener, to reflect the sound and, in essence, re-create the larger sound heard in concert halls.
In 1964, at the urging of his mentor and adviser at MIT, Y.W. Lee, he founded his company to pursue research in acoustics. The Bose Corp initially pursued military contracts, but Bose's vision was to produce a new generation of stereo speakers.
Having earned his bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees in electrical engineering at MIT in the 1950s, Bose returned from a Fulbright scholarship at the National Physical Laboratory in New Delhi and joined the MIT faculty in 1956. He taught there for more than 45 years, and in 2011, donated a majority of his company's shares to the institute.
Amar Gopal Bose was born on November 2, 1929, in Philadelphia. His father, Noni Gopal Bose, was studying physics at Calcutta University when he was arrested and imprisoned for his opposition to British rule in India. He escaped and fled to the United States in 1920.


Amar Bose, who spent his life pursuing acoustic excellence, dies

Amar Bose

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Visionary engineer, inventor and billionaire entrepreneur Amar Bose, whose namesake company, the Bose Corp, became synonymous with high-quality audio systems and speakers for home users, auditoriums and automobiles, has died at his home in Wayland, in the US state of Massachusetts. He was 83.
