Masaru Ibuka (1908 to 1997) was a Japanese electronics industrialist and one of the two co-founders of Sony, alongside Akio Morita. Born in Nikko, he graduated from Waseda University in 1933, worked at a laboratory that processed movie film, and sat on a wartime research committee of the Imperial Japanese Navy. In September 1945 he opened a radio repair shop in a bombed department store in the Nihonbashi district of Tokyo. Morita joined him the next year, and together they founded the company that became Sony Corporation in 1958. Ibuka arranged the licensing of transistor technology from Bell Labs, led the team that developed the Trinitron color television, served as Sony president from 1950 to 1971 and as chairman until 1976, and received the IEEE Founders Medal in 1972.
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Masaru Ibuka (Wikipedia)
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was a Japanese electronics industrialist
Founded By: Sony, Lead sentence
co-founder of Sony, along with Akio Morita
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Ibuka served as president of Sony from 1950 to 1971, and then served as chairman of Sony from 1971 until he retired in 1976.
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was a Japanese electronics industrialist and co-founder of Sony
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co-founder of Sony
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