"The Bulgarian genius who created energy out of nothing."
Katia Stoyanova
"I would say that he certainly doesn't care about his fellow countrymen in the afterlife, who pay huge electricity bills when he created something that costs nothing." He created it for all of us! And the Bulgarian energy mafia doesn't like to hear the name of Stefan Marinov at all.
Have you ever heard of Stefan Marinov? A lot of you probably have no idea who this is. However, 16 years after his mysterious death, he is one of the most famous Bulgarians in the world. Many scientists have learned from him, and many scientists from all over the world quote him and put their theses into practice. So, how is it possible that a Bulgarian is known all over the world in scientific circles, and not only that, but in Bulgaria - his homeland - almost no one has heard of him?
Stefan Marinov was born in Sofia in 1931. Her mother, Galina, is the sister of our famous actress Adriana Budevska. His father, Marin Marinov, was a lawyer (close friend of Professor Nisim Mevorah, father of the poet Valeri Petrov). His parents studied in Munich. The family hosted artists and writers: Konstantin Shtarkelov, Ivan Lazarov, Elin Pelin and others.
He graduated in Physics at the University of Prague, then Sofia and later at the Naval Academy in Varna. He traveled as a Czech ship captain and then began working at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, in the physics department. He speaks fluent Russian, Czech, Polish, English, German, French and Italian. He composed poems in these languages and wrote a brilliant satirical prose in epistolic form in Bulgarian.
The sixties and seventies were not easy for a man who you can say one day changed the world. At that time he was the subject of political persecution in Bulgaria because of his opinions, and in 1977 he emigrated from his homeland. In 1978 he began to live permanently in Washington, DC, and later he also lived in Italy and Austria. In 1997 he died