Editing Ray Dolby (section)

{{Short description|American electrical engineer and inventor (1933–2013)}}
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| name               = Ray Dolby
| honorific-suffix   = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|OBE|HonFREng}}
| image              = RayDolby.jpeg
| caption            = Dolby (left) being inducted into the [[National Inventors Hall of Fame]], 2004
| birth_name         = Ray Milton Dolby
| birth_date         = {{birth date|1933|1|18}}
| birth_place        = [[Portland, Oregon]], U.S.
| death_date         = {{death date and age|2013|9|12|1933|1|18}}
| death_place        = [[San Francisco]], California, U.S.
| education          = [[Stanford University]] ([[Bachelor of Engineering|BE]])<br>[[Pembroke College, Cambridge]] ([[PhD]])
| spouse             = {{marriage |[[Dagmar Dolby|Dagmar Bäumert]] |1966}}
| children           = {{Plainlist|
* [[Tom Dolby]]
* David Dolby
}}
| module             = {{ infobox engineering career
| discipline           = [[Electrical engineering]], [[physics]]
| institutions         = [[Dolby Laboratories]]
| significant_projects = [[Dolby noise-reduction system|Dolby NR]]
| significant_design   = [[Surround sound]]
| significant_awards   = {{Plainlist|
* [[National Medal of Technology and Innovation|National Medal of Technology]] (1997)
* Honorary Officer of the [[Order of the British Empire]] (1987)
* [[Marshall Scholarship]] (1961)
}}
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| footnotes          = <ref>{{cite news |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |page=C8 |date=September 15, 2013
   |title=Ray Dolby, 80. Audio pioneer changed sound of music |first=Matt |last=Schudel |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/ray-dolby-pioneer-in-recorded-sound-dies-at-80/2013/09/14/fc7f52c2-1cae-11e3-a628-7e6dde8f889d_story.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |chapter=Ray Milton Dolby |title=Newsmakers |location=Detroit |publisher=[[Gale (publisher)|Gale]] |year=1986 |chapter-url=http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/bic1/ReferenceDetailsPage/ReferenceDetailsWindow?failOverType=&query=&prodId=BIC1&windowstate=normal&contentModules=&mode=view&displayGroupName=Reference&limiter=&currPage=&disableHighlighting=false&displayGroups=&sortBy=&source=&search_within_results=&action=e&catId=&activityType=&scanId=&documentId=GALE%7CK1618001948&userGroupName=fairfax_main&jsid=275790892d9743a9d5b9a06b69c46272 |id=K1618001948}}</ref>
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'''Ray Milton Dolby''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|d|oʊ|l|b|i|,_|ˈ|d|ɒ|l|-}}; January 18, 1933&nbsp;– September 12, 2013) was an American [[engineer]] and inventor of the [[Noise (electronics)|noise]] reduction system known as [[Dolby noise-reduction system|Dolby NR]]. He helped develop the [[video tape recorder]] while at [[Ampex]] and was the founder of [[Dolby|Dolby Laboratories]].