Ray Dolby leaves Cambridge a quiet £85 million
mainThe American inventor of noise reduction systems has left Cambridge University the second biggest bequest in its history and Pembroke ‘the biggest change to our College in 650 years’.
Dolby came to Cambridge as a Marshall Scholar in 1957 and stayed for four years, reading physics at Pembroke.
He went on to pioneer important innovations in the audio industry before his death, aged 80, in 2013.
The bequest, of which £35m goes to Pembroke and £50m to build a new physics lab, was made by his widow and son.
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