Bent Stumpe
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Born12 September 1938
AlmamaterRoyal Danish Air Force
OccupationElectronic engineer
KnownforEarly development of the touchscreen
Bent Stumpe | |
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 Bent Stumpe showing a prototype of a capacitive touchscreen developed at CERN in the 1970’s.[1]—a similar technology to which was applied to the iPhone produced by Apple Inc. many years later.[2] | |
| Born | 12 September 1938 |
| Alma mater | Royal Danish Air Force |
| Occupation | Electronic engineer |
| Known for | Early development of the touchscreen |
Bent Stumpe (born 12 September 1938) is a Danish electronic engineer who spent most of his career at the international research laboratory CERN, Geneva, Switzerland. Stumpe built in 1972, following an idea launched by Frank Beck, a capacitive touchscreen[3][4][5][6] for controlling CERN's Super Proton Synchrotron accelerator.[7][8][2][9][10] In 1973 Beck and Stumpe published a CERN report, outlining the concept for a prototype touchscreen as well as a multi-function computer-configurable knob.[11][12]
