Martin Tajmar

Tajmar Martin (born 2 July 1974 in Vienna) is an Austrian, Engineering Physics and Professor of Space Systems at the Technical University of Dresden, lecturer at the Technical University of Vienna and the International Space University, France.

Degrees

Work

Tajmar began his work in the field of plasma physics at the Technical University of Vienna in Austria. After staying at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California at NASA research activity followed on the ESTEC European Space Agency ESA.

From 2005 to 2010 headed the Department Tajmar Martin Space Propulsion (later "Space Propulsion and Advanced Concepts ") of the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT ) Seibersdorf. There Tajmar developed with his department a form of ion drive, called feep thruster ( Field Emission Electric Propulsion Thruster ) for satellites and probes, such as SMART-1 and LISA Pathfinder. From 2010 to 2012 he conducted research and taught as an Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering at KAIST in Daejeon, South Korea, and was head of the Office of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt.

Other research activities of Martin Tajmar were, inter alia, in the field of Biefeld - Brown effect and the Casimir effect.

Non-repeatable experiments to gravity

Tajmar claimed to have detected in his experiments with rapidly rotating superconductors niobium an equivalent to magnetism for gravity. Therefore, it has been reported on this work in the national media. The measured gravito - magnetic effect seemed to be many orders of magnitude larger than expected from the known theory of the Lense- Thirring effect was (factor). Tajmar has also developed a theory of the alleged effect; this was refuted at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, in a similar experiment with a rotating cylinder of superconducting lead and laser gyroscopes. However, later claimed by Tajmar parity violation or other theories can therefore not be excluded. Recent work by Tajmar indicate a misinterpretation of its measurement results. Maybe the liquid helium used for cooling influenced the measuring apparatus.

Awards

  • 2001: ARC - Award of the Austrian Research Centers (now Austrian Institute of Technology ), first prize in the category Science
  • 2001 and 2000: support from the program "Window on Science" of the U.S. Air Force
  • 1999: Funding by the " International Communication " by the Austrian Research Foundation Program

Writings

  • Martin Tajmar: Advanced space propulsion systems. Springer, Wien 2003, ISBN 3-211-83862-7.
  • Nembo Buldrini, Martin Tajmar: Experimental Results of the Woodward Effect in a Micro -Newton Thrust Balance. in: Marc G.Millis, et al.: Frontiers of propulsion science. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Reston 2009, ISBN 978-1-56347-956-4, pp. 373-389.
  • . Tajmar M. et al: Possible Gravitational Anomalies in Quantum Materials - Phase I: Definition and experiment design. (PDF, 2.1 MB), AFRL -MN -EG -TR -2007- 7012 Air Force Research Laboratory, Eglin AFB, 2007, accessed on December 9, 2010
  • . Tajmar M. et al: Possible Gravitational Anomalies in Quantum Materials - Phase II: Experiment Assembly, Qualification and Test Results. (PDF, 2.1 MB), AFRL -MN -EG -TR -2007- 7013 Air Force Research Laboratory, Eglin AFB, 2007, accessed on December 9, 2010
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