Ferdinand Freudenstein

Ferdinand Freudenstein is an American physicist and engineer who is considered to be the Father of Modern Kinematics. Freudenstein made revolutionary contribution applying digital computation to the kinematic synthesis of mechanisms. In his Ph.D dissertation, Freudenstein developed what is to become the Freudenstein Equation, which uses a simple algebraic method to determine the position of an output lever in a linkage mechanism.

Ferdinand Freudenstein was born into a Jewish family, on May 12, 1926, in Frankfurt, Germany. He was the son of a successful merchant George Freudenstein and Charlotte Rosenberg. At the age of ten, Freudenstein with his parents and two sisters fled Nazi Germany for refuge in the Netherlands.

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