Ray Dolby was an American engineer from Portland, Oregon. While at the University of Cambridge, he won a Marshall Scholarship for a Ph.D. in Physics. After Cambridge, Ray went on to become a technical advisor to the United Nations in India until 1965, once he returned to England, he founded Dolby laboratories. Around this time, he invented the Dolby noise-reduction system, a form of audio signal processing for analog tape recorders. After his work with audiotape noise reduction, he sought to improve film sounds. He was passionate about his studies and research surrounding electrical engineering. Dolby passed away in 2013 of leukemia at the age of 80. In his will, Dolby bequeathed £35 million to Pembroke College. In 2017, Dolby’s family donated a further £85 million from his estate to Cambridge University’s Cavendish Laboratories which funded a Physics professorship and the building of the Ray Dolby Centre, to be completed by 2023. Read more.