Peter Scheiber

Member of the class of 1956.

Inventor of surround sound, and winner of the 2003 Emmy for developing surround sound for TV.

At Oberlin he was a college music major and played bassoon. After graduating, he played with the Ottawa Philharmonic and the Dallas Symphony orchestras, worked for Texas Instruments for a while, and started getting patents as he worked on the concept for surround sound.