Wednesday, December 17, 2008

There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom

The idea of nanotechnology (although he did not call it nanotechnology) started when Richard Feynman (1959) gave a talk at Caltech called “There’s plenty of room at the bottom”.
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Feynman suggested the “possibility of maneuvering things atom by atom” and “if we go down far enough, all our devices can be mass produced so that they are perfect copies of one another.”
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He also assisted in the development of the atomic bomb, and later went on to become a joint recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 for his work in quantum electrodynamics.
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