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Published: 11.06.2003.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'Introduces Innovations in Nano-Technology', 1.
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Nanotechnology is a little known science that deals with building things out of atoms and molecules. The idea first came about in 1959, when Richard Feynman, a physicist, stated in a lecture that: "The principles of physics, as far as I can see, do not speak against the possibility of maneuvering things atom by atom." Feynman went on to win the 1965 Nobel Prize in physics.
The word nanotechnology was most likely said by Eric Drexler, in the early 1980's, in his book, Engines of Creation, in which he outlines the ideas and concepts of nanotechnology.…

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