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Carl G. Sontheimer (1914-1998) was an American
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Carl G. Sontheimer (1914-1998) was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 inventor and engineer best known for creating the original Cuisinart food processor
Food processor

A food processor is a kitchen appliance used to facilitate various repetitive tasks in the process of preparation of food. Today, the term almost always refers to an electric-motor-driven appliance, although there are some manual devices also referred to as "food processors"....
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Sontheimer was born in New York
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 but raised in France
France

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. He returned to the U.S. to attend MIT
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private university research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States....
, 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
Project Apollo

The Apollo program was a human spaceflight program undertaken by NASA during the years 1961?1975 with the goal of conducting manned moon landing missions....
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