Sidney Harman

Sidney Harman
Born	Sidney Mortimer Harman (1918-08-04)August 4, 1918 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Died	April 12, 2011(2011-04-12) (aged 92) Washington, D.C., U.S.
Nationality	American
Education	Baruch College of the City University of New York (B.A., 1939) Union Graduate College, (Ph.D., 1973)
Occupation(s)	Engineer, business, entrepreneur, philanthropist, publishing
Spouses	Sylvia Stern ​ ​ (m. 1945; div. 1970)​ [1] Jane Harman[2] ​ ​ (after 1980)​
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Sidney Mortimer Harman (August 4, 1918 – April 12, 2011) was a Canadian-born American polymath whose varied intellectual interests enabled him to flourish during a sixty-year career as an engineer, businessman, manager and philanthropist active in electronics, education, government, industry, and publishing.

Harman made “high-fidelity sound [a] part of American life".^[3]

Harman's career highlights include: co-founder, CEO and Chairman Emeritus of Harman/Kardon, Inc. [later Harman International Industries], President of World Friends College, U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce, Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, board member of the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, Isaias W. Hellman Professor of Polymathy at University of Southern California executive board chairman of Business Executives for National Security, member of the Council on Foreign Relations and CFO-owner of the Newsweek Daily Beast Co.

Harman was active in business until his death at 92 years old. He died one month after being diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia.^[2]