Stefan Marinov

Stefan Marinov
Born(1931-02-01)1 February 1931
Sofia, Bulgaria
Died15 July 1997(1997-07-15) (aged 66)
Graz, Austria
Alma materCzech Technical University in Prague
Sofia University
Known forFree energy
The ball-bearing motor on YouTube
Scientific career
FieldsExperimental physics
Theoretical physics
Fringe science
InstitutionsSofia University
Notes
Son Marin Marinov was the vice-Minister of Industry in Bulgaria

Stefan Marinov (Bulgarian: Стефан Маринов) (1 February 1931 – 15 July 1997) was a Bulgarian physicist, researcher, writer, and lecturer who promoted anti-relativistic theoretical viewpoints and later in his life defended the ideas of perpetual motion and free energy. In 1997, he self-published experimental results that confirmed classical electromagnetism and disproved that a machine he had constructed could be a source of perpetual motion.[1][2] Devastated by the negative results, he committed suicide[3] in Graz, Austria on 15 July 1997.

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