Yom Tov Lipman Lipkin
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Yom Tov Lipman Lipkin was a Lithuanian Jewish mathematician and inventor. He was the youngest son of Rabbi Yisroel Salanter, the father of the Musar movement. Lipkin is best known for the Peaucellier–Lipkin linkage which was partly named after him. The device is also known as the "Lipkin parallelogram". Lipkin discovered the linkage independent from Peaucellier in 1871. A model of Lipkin's invention was exhibited at the exposition at Vienna in 1873, and was later secured from the inventor by the Museum of the Institute of Engineers of Ways of Communication, St. Petersburg.
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