Amar Gopal Bose was an entrepreneur and professor from the United States. He was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for nearly 45 years as an electrical engineer and sound engineer. Bose Corporation was also founded by him, and he served as its chairman. Bose was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Noni Gopal Bose, a Bengali Hindu father, and Charlotte, an American mother with French and German ancestry. His father was an Indian freedom fighter who fled Bengal in the 1920s to avoid further persecution by the British colonial police after being imprisoned for his political activities. Charlotte, his mother, is characterized as an American schoolteacher of French and German descent, but according to Bose, she is "more Bengali than I." She was a vegetarian with a passion for Vedanta and Hindu philosophy. Bose initially demonstrated his entrepreneurial skills and passion in electronics at the age of thirteen, when he sought the help of his classmates in a modest home company fixing model trains and home radios to augment his family's income during World War II. Bose enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology after graduating from Abington Senior High School in Abington, Pennsylvania, and graduated with a BS (Bachelor of Science) in Electrical Engineering in the early 1950s. Bose spent a year as a Fulbright research student in New Delhi, India, where he met his future first wife, and a year at Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium in Eindhoven, Netherlands. He earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from MIT, where he worked on a thesis on nonlinear systems with Norbert Wiener and Yuk-Wing Lee.