---
title: "Ning Li"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Ning Li"
aliases: ["Ning Li (physicist)"]
first_seen: "2026-07-09T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["AC Gravity LLC","gravitomagnetic superconductor antigravity","Douglas Torr","superconductor-antigravity non-replication","defense-funding opacity"]
---


Physicist (1943–2021), formerly of the University of Alabama in Huntsville, central figure in the vault's antigravity/fringe-defense-funding cluster: with Douglas Torr she proposed in 1991 that rotating ions in a Type-II superconductor could produce a laboratory-scale gravitomagnetic effect, then carried the work into a private successor company, [[claim-ac-gravity-llc-took-dod-antigravity-grant-and-published-nothing|AC Gravity LLC]], which reportedly took a $448,970 DoD grant in 2001. She matters to the vault not for the physics — never independently replicated — but as the case study of how an unretracted, unreplicated claim leaves an administrative residue (a funded, still-legally-active company) that outlives the science and gets re-narrated decades later.

## References
- [[claim-ning-li-1991-gravitomagnetic-superconductor-antigravity-proposal]]
- [[claim-ac-gravity-llc-took-dod-antigravity-grant-and-published-nothing]]
- [[claim-superconductor-antigravity-effects-never-independently-replicated]]
- [[claim-ac-gravity-llc-foia-request-closed-without-records]]
- [[claim-ac-gravity-llc-active-alabama-registration-2026]]