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This paper look at the life work of the audio pioner. Dolby Laboratories was founded in London in 1965 by Ray Dolby, a young inventor and electrical engineer who had moved to the UK from the US to study for a doctorate in physics at Cambridge University four years earlier. The company initially had just four staff, but over the years would grow into a huge multinational organisation valued at several billion dollars and employing thousands across the globe. Ray Dolby was born in 1933 in Portland, Oregon and grew up in California. A boy of precocious intelligence, he joined Ampex, a company specialising in tape recorders, while still at school and went on to graduate from the elite Stanford University with a degree in electrical engineering in 1957. It´s a little-known fact that he later went back to Ampex for a short period and worked on the development of the first home video recorder.