Science · Engineering & invention
Martin Tajmar
Aerospace researcher and precision-thrust experimentalist
Who they are
Martin Tajmar is a coauthor of the Dresden team’s controlled tests of the proposed EMDrive. With Oliver Neunzig and Marcel Weikert, he examined effects that can mimic very small forces and reported no anomalous thrust within the tested conditions. His work illustrates how an unusual propulsion claim can be investigated through improved measurement.
The timeline uses his team’s null result as a case in testing propulsion claims.
Selected contributions
Selected works
Academic paper · 2021 · Peer-reviewed article
High-accuracy thrust measurements of the EMDrive and elimination of false-positive effects
Tajmar, Oliver Neunzig and Marcel Weikert describe controls for spurious thrust signals and report no anomalous thrust in the tested configurations. The paper explains why thermal and electrical effects matter in small-force experiments.
Reading scope & citation
Fresh title, byline, affiliations, abstract and experimental-artifact discussion read; prior documented controls/conclusion review reused.
DOI: 10.1007/s12567-021-00385-1
In the timeline
Biography sources
- High-accuracy thrust measurements of the EMDrive: full paper ↗Martin Tajmar and coauthors; German National Library copy