Masaru Ibuka
Ibuka Masaru (Japanese井深 大, born April 11, 1908 in Nikko, † December 19, 1997 in Tokyo ) was a Japanese entrepreneur. He was co-founder of the company from the Sony emerged.
He received his doctorate in 1933 at Waseda University, where he " Captain America " had the nickname. After graduation, he worked at a photo lab, developed the movies. In 1945 he left the company and opened a radio repair shop in Tokyo.
Ibuka and Akio Morita founded in 1946, the Sony Corporation, which operated until 1958 as Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation. Ibuka was instrumental in bringing that Sony was able to secure the licensing rights to the technology of the transistor at Bell Laboratories in the 1950s. This Sony was one of the first companies that used this technology for civilian purposes. From 1950 to 1971, Ibuka president of Sony and 1971 to 1976 he was Chairman of the Board.
Death
Ibuka left Sony in 1976. He remained as a consultant to the company but closely related, until he died of heart failure in 1997.
Writing
Ibuka was the author of the book Kindergarten is too late (1971 ), in which he defended the thesis that man learns at the age of 9 months to 3 years at the most and ways and pointed at spreading this. The foreword of the book was written by Glenn Doman. He was the founder of the Institute for the Achievement of Human Potential, an organization trained the parents about the development of children's brains. Ibuka and Doman agreed that the first years of life for the formation were crucial.