Bent Stumpe (born 12 September 1938, Copenhagen, Denmark) is a Danish

electronic engineer Electronics engineering is a sub-discipline of electrical engineering which emerged in the early 20th century and is distinguished by the additional use of active components such as semiconductor devices to amplify and control electric current ...

who spent most of his career at the international research laboratory

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, Geneva,

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

. Stumpe built in 1972, following an idea launched by Frank Beck, a

capacitive touchscreen A touchscreen or touch screen is the assembly of both an input ('touch panel') and output ('display') device. The touch panel is normally layered on the top of an electronic visual display of an information processing system. The display is often ...

for controlling CERN's Super Proton Synchrotron accelerator. 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.

Education

Bent Stumpe was educated within the Royal Danish Air Force and obtained a certificate as a radio/radar engineer in 1959.

Career

Leaving the Air Force, Stumpe was employed from 1959–1961 at the Danish radio and television factory TO-R Radio before he was employed by CERN from 1961 until 2003. In combination with his activities at CERN, Stumpe was a consultant to the World Health Organization working on the development of an instrument for the early detection of Leprosy.

References

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