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Amar Bose

1929 - 2013

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Amar Gopal Bose (November 2, 1929 – July 12, 2013) was an American entrepreneur and academic. An electrical engineer and sound engineer, he was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for over 45 years. He was also the founder and chairman of Bose Corporation. In 2011, he donated a majority of the company to MIT in the form of non-voting shares to sustain and advance MIT's education and research mission. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Amar Bose is the 368th most popular inventor (down from 365th in 2019), the 8,805th most popular biography from United States (down from 8,267th in 2019) and the 97th most popular American Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Amar Bose ranks 368 out of 426. Before him are Orville Gibson, Andy Bechtolsheim, Norman Joseph Woodland, Ken Olsen, Giovanni Caselli, and Frank J. Sprague. After him are Andrew Viterbi, Karl Jatho, Edward Craven Walker, Harry Ferguson, Tabitha Babbitt, and Patricia Bath.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Amar Bose ranks 440. Before him are Pentti Hämäläinen, Józef Pińkowski, Bruno Belin, Pat Crawford Brown, Marcelino dos Santos, and Charlotte Froese Fischer. After him are Wanda Wiłkomirska, Yuri Artsutanov, William Fields, Olga Tass, Kazimierz Kutz, and Ivor Allchurch. Among people deceased in 2013, Amar Bose ranks 383. Before him are Edward Stevens, Nobuyuki Aihara, Walter Jens, Josef Němec, Regina Bianchi, and Atje Keulen-Deelstra. After him are Stan Musial, Costică Ștefănescu, Taisia Chenchik, Joseph Paul Franklin, Chico Hamilton, and Ebbe Parsner.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Amar Bose ranks 8,807 out of 20,380. Before him are Fredric Lehne (1959), Nat Adderley (1931), Earl Browder (1891), Dave Cowens (1948), Benjamin Banneker (1731), and Laura San Giacomo (1962). After him are Brian Gottfried (1952), Elizabeth Ashley (1939), Nancy Richey (1942), Bill Nye (1955), Jesse Helms (1921), and Mary Alden (1883).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Amar Bose ranks 97. Before him are Jay Miner (1932), Margaret E. Knight (1838), Orville Gibson (1856), Norman Joseph Woodland (1921), Ken Olsen (1926), and Frank J. Sprague (1857). After him are Tabitha Babbitt (1779), Patricia Bath (1942), Henry J. Kaiser (1882), Robert S. Langer (1948), Charles Darrow (1889), and Frank Piasecki (1919).

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