1996 - Karl Muller, Inventor of MBT ("Masai" Shoes)

Karl Muller was a swiss engineer that came up with the idea of redistributing the center of gravity of the shoe to the center. He got he idea walking through grass paddies in Korea, noticing that his knees and back hurt less walking through this terrain. He surmised that the Masai tribe in Kenya, recognized for their remarkable posture, had developed such good posture from waliking on natural terrain where their center of gravity is more naturally distributed. He invented today's "Masai" shoes, now popular in many other brands.