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Amar Gopal Bose (Bengali: অমর বোস), (November 2, 1929 – July 12, 2013) was an American academic and entrepreneur of Bengali descent. An electrical engineer and sound engineer, he was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for over 45 years.[1] He was also the founder and chairman of Bose Corporation. In 2011, he donated a majority of the company to MIT in the form of non-voting shares to sustain and advance MIT’s education and research mission.[2] Honors and Awards Fellow, IEEE, 1972 – for contributions to loudspeaker design, two-state amplifier-modulators, and nonlinear systems. Honorary member, Audio Engineering Society, 1985. Bose was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2008. The 2010 IEEE/RSE Wolfson James Clerk Maxwell Award, for "outstanding contributions to consumer electronics in sound reproduction, industrial leadership, and engineering education".[18] In 2011, he was listed at #9 on the MIT150 list of the top 150 innovators and ideas from MIT. Beryllium Lifetime Achievement Award, Association of Loudspeaker Manufacturing & Acoustics International, 2014. Founders Award at The Asian Awards 2015.