NEW RAY DOLBY-MARSHALL SCHOLARSHIP fund ANNOUNCED, ENDOWMENT SUPPORTS THIRD-YEAR DOCTORAL RESEARCH
This May, the Ray Dolby Centre at Cambridge University opens its doors to serve as the new home for the Cavendish Laboratory, a globally-renowned department of physics where the electron, the neutron and the double helix structure of DNA were discovered. The new state-of-the-art facility serves as a national resource for physics research and innovation, accelerating breakthroughs in areas such as quantum technologies, semiconductors, disease detection, sustainable energy, and artificial intelligence, while deepening collaborations between industry and academia. The Dolby Centre is the cornerstone of more than £150 million in philanthropic support to the University from the Dolby family — part of their long-standing commitment to Cambridge and to scientific and artistic advancement around the world.
“It is from an educated population that will come the solutions to our ever growing and deeply complex challenges we as a world face today.”
-Dagmar Dolby
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Ray Dolby OBE (1933-2013) was an inventor, audio pioneer, and founder of Dolby Laboratories, who transformed the sound of entertainment. Dolby’s technical innovations in noise reduction and “surround sound,” among other inventions, helped open new creative possibilities for cinematic and broadcast audio around the world. Dolby came to the University of Cambridge Cavendish Laboratory to conduct doctoral research in x-ray microscopy under the British government’s flagship Marshall Scholarship as part of the class of 1957.
Ray Dolby OBE (Marshall Scholar 1957)
In concert with the Dolby Centre’s opening, the Association of Marshall Scholars and the Dolby family are launching the Ray Dolby - Marshall Scholarship Fund. With a $3.6 million endowment, the fund supports American doctoral researchers in their final year of study in the United Kingdom—deepening the impact of the British government-funded Marshall Scholarship. The new scholarship fund honors Ray Dolby’s legacy as a 1957 Marshall Scholar at the University of Cambridge, whose research and career revolutionized the nature of recorded sound.
