The Famous Bulgarians: Prof. Dimitar Karamanev
Newton came up with the theory under an apple tree, Karamanev made it better in his bathroom
Soap bubbles are loads of fun and cool to look at. What you probably didn’t think they could do is play a crucial role in establishing a new law to calculate the speed of free falling objects. Well, that’s exactly how Karamanev used them and the result was a formula that gave more accurate results that Newton’s law with only 2% deviation as opposed to Newton’s 15%!
Karamanev is a Bulgarian engineer and biotechnologist, who lives and works in Canada. His father, Georgi Karamanev, is the longest-standing minister of trade of Bulgaria since the Liberation. Since he was five years old, Dimitar lived in his grandparents’ village Rozovets. He used to play around and conduct “experiments” even at a young age, but his interest in science was sparked by his mother – a chemistry teacher. While he was still in high-school, he sent a proposal to the Soviet Magazine “Young Technician” on a new way to build helicopter propellers using the Magnus Effect. The scientists at the publication were so impressed by the young man’s work that they issued a symbolic “inventors certificate” for the proposal.
What he believes is his greatest discovery, however is a bunch of old-ass bacteria that apparently feed on electricity. They could potentially serve to eradicate world hunger and our energy crisis. He believes their diet is the key to evolution…
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