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Named by inventor Thomas Townsend Brown after himself and astronomy professor Paul Alfred Biefeld, his former teacher and possibly co-experimenter.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Biefeld-Brown effect
Today it means: An electrical phenomenon that produces an ionic wind that transfers its momentum to surrounding neutral particles, observed on an asymmetric capacitor when high voltage is applied to the electrodes. Full definition →