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Dr. Faydor L. Litvin (xx xxxx 1914 – 26 April 2017) was a world-renowned scientist, prolific scholar, and educator, widely regarded as the founder of the modern theory of gearing.

Dr. Litvin was born in Russia during World War I and left home at the age of 14 to seek an education in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg). He received a degree with honors at Leningrad Polytechnic Institute in 1937, earned his Ph.D. at Tomsk Polytechnic University in 1944, and his ScD at Leningrad Polytechnic University in 1954. He continued to research and teach at Leningrad Polytechnic Institute until 1964, when he joined the faculty of the Institute of Precision Mechanics and Optics in Leningrad, serving as Department Head and Professor of Mechanical Engineering. At the age of 65 —an age at which most consider retiring— he started a new chapter in his life by emigrating to the U.S. In 1979, he joined the faculty of the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) where he served for another three decades as Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Gear Research Center.