Bose Tapped For Inventors Hall of Fame

Bose Corporation founder and former MIT professor Amar Bose will be inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, the eponymous nonprofit group announced today. Recognized for audio inventions including the 901 Directing/Reflecting speaker system, Bose joins a group of honorees that includes the inventors of wrinkle-free cotton, light emitting diodes, the anti-fungal drug Fluconazole, and the television remote control.

Author: Rebecca Zacks

Rebecca is Xconomy's co-founder. She was previously the managing editor of Physician's First Watch, a daily e-newsletter from the publishers of New England Journal of Medicine. Before helping launch First Watch, she spent a decade covering innovation for Technology Review, Scientific American, and Discover Magazine's TV show. In 2005-2006 she was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. Rebecca holds a bachelor's degree in biology from Brown University and a master's in science journalism from Boston University.