Carl Sontheimer
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Carl G. Sontheimer (1914-1998) was an American inventor and engineer best known for creating the original Cuisinart food processor.
Sontheimer was born in New York but raised in France. He returned to the U.S. to attend MIT, where he received an engineering degree. Before developing the food processor in the early 1970s, he invented a number of other devices, including a microwave-based direction finder used during NASA's moon program.
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- Biography from an MIT "inventor of the week" site
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