Amar G. Bose, founder and chairman of the audio technology company Bose Corp. died on July 12 at his home in Wayland, Mass at the age of 83.
Bose was the founder of the company made popular for its noise-canceling headphones and popular tabletop radios. Bose' death was announced by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where Dr. Bose began his acoustics research that the company built off of and where he was a faculty member for more than 40 years according to The Washington Post.
So far none of the details surrounding the acoustics expert's death have been revealed. The company's website has been temporarily redone so that the homepage acts as a memorial to the founder, a man obsessed with sound quality, complete with a forum for people to write their condoloences. As the story goes, in the early 1950s Bose was appalled by the poor sound quality of an high-end record player. He became devoted to improving loudspeakers and to the study of acoustics. It is this passion and determination that eventually lead him and his company to be the top-tier in terms of high-end sound quality speakers and headphones.
It is impossible to put into words what Dr. Bose meant to each of us, and to Bose. He was more than our chairman. He was our teacher - always encouraging us, always believing we could do great things, and that anything was possible," Bose President Bob Maresca said in a statement announcing Dr. Bose's death on the company website. "We are as committed to this as he was to us. His vision is our history and our future, and Bose Corp. will forever be his company."
Dr. Bose leaves behind an impressive legacy with the MIT institution as well as being an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was also inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2008.
