caption serviceyears branch death_date death_place children birth_place module name embed birth_date spouse image article_title education birth_name
dolby inventors hall of fame , 2004 -lrb- left -rrb- being inducted into the national early 1950s u.s. army 12 september 2013 san francisco , california , u.s. tom dolby david dolby portland , oregon , u.s. discipline laboratories significant_projects = dolby nr significant_design = surround sound significant_awards = = -lcb- -lcb- infobox military person electrical engineering , physics institutions = dolby ray dolby yes 18 january 1933 dagmar bäumert 1966 2013 widowed raydolby.jpeg ray dolby
 san , st. louis 1953-1954 stanford university , b.s.e.e. , 1957 jose pembroke college , cambridge , ph.d. , 1961 state university 1951-1952 , 1955 washington university ray milton dolby
ray dolby

ray milton dolby , obe -lrb- january 18 , 1933 -- september 12 , 2013 -rrb- was an american engineer and inventor of the noise reduction system known as dolby nr .
he helped develop the video tape recorder while at ampex and was the founder of dolby laboratories .
