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Maurice Leakey
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posted September 13, 2013 01:31 AM

Ray Dolby, OBE, the US engineer who founded Dolby Laboratories and pioneered noise reduction in audio recordings has died in California, aged 80.

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Robert Crewdson
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posted September 13, 2013 03:55 AM

As a US citizen, how did he get the OBE?

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Maurice Leakey
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posted September 13, 2013 05:32 AM

In 1965, whilst in England, Ray Dolby founded Dolby Laboratories.
In 1986 he was made an Honorary Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE.)

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David Park
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posted September 13, 2013 06:24 AM

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-24075429

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