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Amar Bose

American engineer (1929–2013)

This article is about the American engineer and founding chairman of Bose Corporation. For other people named Bose, see Bose (surname). For other uses of the name, see Bose.

Amar Bose

Born

Amar Gopal Bose


(1929-11-02)November 2, 1929

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.

DiedJuly 12, 2013(2013-07-12) (aged 83)

Wayland, Massachusetts, U.S.

Occupation(s)Engineer, entrepreneur, founder of Bose Corporation
Spouse(s)Prema Bose (divorced)
Ursula Boltshauser (widowed)
Children2, including Vanu
EducationMassachusetts Institute of Technology (BS, MS, DcS)
ThesisA theory of nonlinear systems (1956)
Doctoral advisorNorbert Wiener[1]
Yuk-Wing Lee
Doctoral studentsAlan V. Oppenheim[1]

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.[2] He was also the founder and chairman o

Have you ever heard a piece of recorded music so clearly and vividly that you felt you were at a live concert?  Chances are that this came about due to the refinement of speaker technologies by Indian American inventor Amar Gopal Bose.  Bose (b. 1929) passed away on July 12, leaving behind a legacy that included a 40-year research and development career in acoustics technology at MIT and the widely-recognized Bose Corporation, whose non-voting shares he donated to the university to further research and education.  Bose’s father, who campaigned for India’s independence from the British, arrived at Ellis Island in the 1920s with twenty dollars in his pocket, settling in Philadelphia with his mother, a schoolteacher of French-German ancestry. Bose recounts the racism his family endured there: “the prejudice was so bad in the United States at that time that a dark person with a white person would not be served in a restaurant.” (1)

At age 13, to supplement his family’s income, Bose enlisted school friends as co-workers in a home-based business repairing model trains and radios; t

Birthplace:
Philadelphia, PA

Education:

  • SB, SM in Electrical Engineering: MIT 1952
  • ScD in Electrical Engineering: MIT 1956

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    Professional History:
    Amar Gopal Bose learned to channel his innate predilection for engineering into business endeavors from an early age. He grew up in "an all-white neighbourhood in Philadelphia", as the son of "an American, Charlotte" and Noni, an Indian refugee from the British Raj who started an import business. Bose started "fooling around with electrical outlets and taking everything apart" as an infant, and developed an ear for music when his parents forced him to study the violin at age six.

    Since Noni Bose's import business failed with World War II's advent, Amar Bose worked at odd jobs to support the Bose family. Despite the looming specter of constant "racist attacks" towards his family, Amar Bose brought in some income by repairing old model trains that shops could not repair. Bose seized upon opportunity when he familiarized himself with transistor repair, as the war's insatiable need for qualified

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