KEMPF - Key Persons
At 23, studying physics and chemistry in Strasbourg, France, Jean-Pierre Kempf decided he wanted to drive a car just using his hands. It was 1954 and the only transportation he had had since he lost the use of his legs due to polio at the age of two, was a tricycle.
He always had to leave it outside, in front of the school and now of the university.
who is she?
Martine Kempf, founder of KEMPF Inc., received the Manus Award for the Darios 211 in 2019.
Martine KEMPF is the CEO of KEMPF Inc. in the US and of KEMPF SAS in Europe.
In 1985 as an astronomy student she invented the Katalavox, a speech recognition control system used to control secondary functions in cars for drivers without the use of their arms.
She taught herself electronics in her spare time with books and magazines and designed a very fast and reliable speech recognition system way ahead of its time.
Her invention was used in cars for disabled drivers, in power wheelchairs for quadriplegics and in surgical microspcopes used by surgeons in operating rooms.