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Amar Bose

1929 - 2013

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Amar Gopal Bose (November 2, 1929 – July 12, 2013) was an American entrepreneur and academic. An electrical engineer and sound engineer, he was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for over 45 years. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Amar Bose has received more than 2,089,832 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Amar Bose is the 333rd most popular inventor (down from 314th in 2019), the 7,099th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,700th in 2019) and the 88th most popular American Inventor.

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  • 3.91

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Amar Bose ranks 333 out of 354Before him are Barnes Wallis, Margaret E. Knight, Ken Olsen, Joseph Engelberger, John Philip Holland, and Frank Piasecki. After him are George Graham, George Stibitz, Hary Gunarto, Bill Atkinson, John Shepherd-Barron, and Dan Bricklin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Amar Bose ranks 366Before him are Igor Novikov, Acker Bilk, Günter Kunert, Girija Devi, Ken McGregor, and Jerry Hardin. After him are Francis Bebey, Kazimierz Kutz, Ilene Woods, Georgios Roubanis, Terry Moore, and Frano Selak. Among people deceased in 2013, Amar Bose ranks 320Before him are Giovanni Cheli, Medardo Joseph Mazombwe, Jean Marcel Honoré, Max Jakobson, Sakine Cansız, and Peter Gilmore. After him are Martí de Riquer i Morera, Jean Stapleton, María de Villota, Stan Musial, Walt Bellamy, and Kumar Pallana.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Amar Bose ranks 7,099 out of 18,182Before him are Mary Anderson (1918), Galo Plaza (1906), Billy Cunningham (1943), John Keel (1930), Carl Johnson (1898), and James Joseph Dresnok (1941). After him are Chyler Leigh (1982), Criss Angel (1967), Edward Condon (1902), Randy Meisner (1946), L. J. Smith (1965), and Edgar Bergen (1903).

Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Amar Bose ranks 88Before him are Marion Donovan (1917), Norman Joseph Woodland (1921), Margaret E. Knight (1838), Ken Olsen (1926), Joseph Engelberger (1925), and Frank Piasecki (1919). After him are George Stibitz (1904), Dan Bricklin (1951), Patricia Bath (1942), Gary Fisher (1950), Granville Woods (1856), and Alfred Carlton Gilbert (1884).