Editing Ray Dolby (section)

==Early life and education==
Dolby was born in [[Portland, Oregon]], the son of Esther Eufemia (née Strand) and Earl Milton Dolby, an inventor. He attended [[Sequoia High School (Redwood City, California)|Sequoia High School]] (class of 1951) in [[Redwood City, California]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2009/03/27/sequoia-high-school-alumni-inducted-into-hall-of-fame/|title=Sequoia High School alumni inducted into Hall of Fame|last=Bishop|first=Shaun|date=2009-03-27|work=The Mercury News|access-date=2018-04-06|language=en-US}}</ref> As a teenager in the decade following World War II, he held part-time and summer jobs at [[Ampex]] in Redwood City,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://simplyknowledge.com/popular/biography/ray-dolby|title=Biography of Ray Dolby &#124; Simply Knowledge|website=Simplyknowledge.com|access-date=24 August 2021}}</ref> working with their first [[Sound recording and reproduction|audio]] tape recorder in 1949. While at [[San Jose State University|San Jose State College]] and later at [[Stanford University]] (interrupted by two years of [[United States Army|Army]] service),<ref name="racetovideo">{{cite journal|last=Wolpin|first=Stewart|date=Fall 1994|title=The Race to Video|url=http://stewartwolpin.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Race-To-Video-100.pdf|journal=[[American Heritage of Invention & Technology]]|volume=10|issn=8756-7296|number=2}}</ref> he worked on early prototypes of [[video tape recorder]] technologies for [[Alexander M. Poniatoff]] and [[Charlie Ginsburg]].

In 1957, Dolby received his [[Bachelor of Science|B.Sc.]] in [[electrical engineering]] from Stanford.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/13/business/ray-dolby-who-put-moviegoers-in-the-middle-is-dead-at-80.html |title=Ray Dolby, Who Put Moviegoers in the Middle of It, Is Dead at 80 |first=Natasha |last=Singer |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |page=A20 |date=12 September 2013}}</ref> He subsequently won a [[Marshall Scholarship]] for a [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D]] (1961) in [[physics]] from the [[University of Cambridge]], England, where he was a Research Fellow at [[Pembroke College, Cambridge|Pembroke College]] and completed his PhD, "''Long wavelength X-ray microanalysis''"<ref>{{cite web  | title = THESIS: Long wavelength X-ray microanalysis | website =University of Cambridge Library| access-date = 29 July 2024   |url = https://idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=44CAM_DSPACE_APOLLO1810%2F265306&context=L&vid=44CAM_PROD&lang=en_US&search_scope=SCOP_CAM_ALL&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=cam_lib_coll&query=any,contains,dolby%20physics&offset=0 }}</ref> under the supervision of [[Vernon Ellis Cosslett|Ellis Cosslett]].<ref>{{cite web  | title = Ray Dolby and the Cavendish Lab |first = Malcolm | last = Longair| website =University of Cambridge, Department of Physics|date = June 8, 2020 | access-date = 29 July 2024  |url = https://www.phy.cam.ac.uk/rdc/raydolby }}</ref>