Bent Stumpe (born 12 September 1938,
Copenhagen
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) is a Danish
electronic engineer who spent most of his career at the international research laboratory
CERN
The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN (; ; ), is an intergovernmental organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world. Established in 1954, it is based in a northwestern suburb of Gen ...
,
Geneva
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Switzerland
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. 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 ofte ...
for controlling CERN's
Super Proton Synchrotron accelerator.
In 1973 Beck and Stumpe published a CERN report, outlining the concept for a prototype
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 ofte ...
as well as a multi-function computer-configurable knob.
Education
Bent Stumpe was educated within the
Royal Danish Air Force
The Royal Danish Air Force ( da, Flyvevåbnet, lit=The Flying weapon) (RDAF) is the aerial warfare force of The Kingdom of Denmark and one of the four branches of the Danish Defence. Initially being components of the Army and the Navy, it was ...
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
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working on the development of an instrument for the early detection of Leprosy.
References
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20th-century Danish engineers
Engineers from Copenhagen
1938 births
People associated with CERN
Living people
Electronics engineers
20th-century Danish inventors