Amar Gopal Bose (Bengali: অমর গোপাল বসু Ômor Gopal Boshu) (born November 2, 1929) is the chairman and founder of Bose Corporation. A Bengali Indian American electrical engineer, he was listed on the 2006 Forbes 400 with a net worth of $1.5 billion. Bengali or Bangla (বাংলা, IPA: ) is an Indo-Aryan language of the eastern Indian subcontinent, evolved from Prakrit, Pāli and Sanskrit. ... 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Bose Corporation is a privately held American company based in Framingham, Massachusetts that specializes in audio equipment. ... For an article on American Indians see Native Americans. ... Electrical Engineers design power systems… … and complex electronic circuits. ... The Forbes 400 or 400 Richest Americans (est. ... Net worth (sometimes net assets) is the total assets minus total liabilities of an individual or company. ...

Bose was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; his father, Nani Gopal Bose, was an Indian freedom revolutionary from Bengal who having been imprisoned for his political activities, fled (Calcutta) Kolkata in the 1920s in order to avoid further prosecution by the British colonial police. Nickname: City of Brotherly Love, Philly, the Cradle of Liberty, the City That Loves You Back, the Quaker City, The Birthplace of America Motto: Philadelphia maneto - Let brotherly love continue Location in Pennsylvania Coordinates: Country United States State Pennsylvania County Philadelphia Founded October 27, 1682 Incorporated October 25, 1701 Government... Official language(s) English, Pennsylvania Dutch Capital Harrisburg Largest city Philadelphia Area  Ranked 33rd  - Total 46,055 sq mi (119,283 km²)  - Width 280 miles (455 km)  - Length 160 miles (255 km)  - % water 2. ... Bengal (Bengali: বঙ্গ Bôngo, বাংলা Bangla, বঙ্গদেশ Bôngodesh or বাংলাদেশ Bangladesh), is a historical and geographical region in the northeast of South Asia. ...   (IPA: [] Bengali: কলকাতা) (formerly  ) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. ...

Amar Bose attended Abington Senior High School and later obtained a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His PhD thesis was a highly mathematical treatise of non-linear systems. Abington Senior High School is a high school (Grades: 10-12) located in Abington, Pennsylvania, United States. ... Doctor of Philosophy, abbreviated Ph. ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private, coeducational research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ...

Amar Bose first displayed his entrepreneurial skills and his interest in technology at age thirteen, when, during the World War-II years, he enlisted school friends as co-workers in a small home business repairing model trains and home radios, to supplement his family's income.

Not yet wealthy, Bose entered MIT as a work-study student with a great deal of practical experience in electronics. After six years, he was graduated with a BS in Electrical Engineering in the early 1950s. Bose spent a year in Eindhoven, Netherlands, in the research labs at NV Philips Electronics and a year in New Delhi, India, as a Fulbright student where he then met his future wife, Prema, from whom he is now divorced. Country Netherlands Province North Brabant Area 88. ... Philips HQ in Amsterdam Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Royal Philips Electronics N.V.), usually known as Philips, (Euronext: PHIA, NYSE: PHG) is one of the largest electronics companies in the world. ... This article is about the urban region that is the capital of India. ... The Fulbright Program is program of educational grants (Fulbright Fellowships) sponsored by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the United States Department of State. ...

On return to MIT as an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, Bose embarked on research in acoustics that led him to invent a stereo loudspeaker that would reproduce, in a domestic setting, the dominantly reflected sound field that characterizes the listening space of the audience in a concert hall. Acoustics is a branch of physics and is the study of sound (mechanical waves in gases, liquids, and solids). ... An invention is an object, process, or technique which displays an element of novelty. ...

Bose was awarded significant patents in two fields which, to this day, are important to the Bose Corporation. These patents were in the area of loud speaker design and non-linear, two-state modulated, Class-D, power processing. To found his company in 1964, for initial capital, he turned to angel investors including his MIT thesis advisor and professor, Dr. Y. W. Lee (who invested his life savings on the effort^{[citation needed]}). A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a state to a patentee (the inventor or assignee) for a fixed period of time in exchange for the regulated, public disclosure of certain details of a device, method, process or composition of matter (substance) (known as an invention) which...

During his early years as an electrical engineering professor, Bose bought a high-end stereo speaker system in 1956 and was reportedly underwhelmed by the performance of his purchase. This would eventually pave the way for his extensive speaker technology research, concentrating on key weaknesses in the high-end speaker systems available during Bose's time, and focusing on psychoacoustics, which would become a hallmark of the company's audio products. Applying similar psychoacoustic principles to headphone technology, Bose created the Tri-Port Earcup Drivers." Electrical Engineers design power systems… … and complex electronic circuits. ... High end refers to the best and generally most expensive of a class of goods or services. ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... “Loudspeaker” redirects here. ... Psychoacoustics is the study of subjective human perception of sounds. ... In-ear headphones Headphones (also known as earphones, stereophones, headsets, or the slang term cans) is a transducer that receives an electrical signal from a media player or receiver and uses speakers placed in close proximity to the ears (hence the name earphone) to convert the signal into audible sound...

Today, the Bose Corporation is a multifaceted entity with more than 10,000 employees, worldwide, that produces products for home, car, and professional audio, as well as conducts basic research in acoustics, automotive systems, and other fields.

In addition to running his company, Bose was a Professor of electrical engineering at MIT for many years until he retired after the Fall 2000 term maintaining the title of professor and still teaching an acoustics class. The meaning of the word professor (Latin: one who claims publicly to be an expert) varies. ...

His son, Vanu Bose, is also a successful high-technology entrepreneur. ^{[opinion needs balancing]} His daughter, Maiya, is a practicing chiropractor. He maintains homes in Wayland, Massachusetts, and in Hawaii.^{[citation needed]} He is married to Ursula Boltzhauser, a senior manager at Bose Corporation. POV, as opposed to NPOV, in an article means that it is affected by an editors point of view. ...

Awards

1987 Inventor Of The Year - Acoustic waveguide speaker technology garners praise from the scientific community, earning Dr. Bose and Dr. William Short "Inventor of the Year" honors.

2007 Distinguished Service Citation - Awarding an individual who has significantly improved the industry or their respective organizations ^[1]

External links

• Short biography of Amar Gopal Bose
• Bose at MIT
• Bose Breakthrough: Electromagnetic Auto Suspension
• A History of Bose