The ideas and concepts behind nanoscience and nanotechnology started with a talk entitled there s plenty of room at the bottom by physicist richard feynman at an american physical society meeting at the california institute of technology caltech on december 29 1959 long before the term nanotechnology was used.
Richard feynman there s plenty of room at the bottom.
These days this lecture is commonly mentioned due to its extraordinary imaginative power.
Feynman to the american physical society in pasadena on december 1959 which explores the immense possibilities a orded by miniaturization.
There s plenty of room at the bottom.
There s plenty of room at the bottom this is the transcript of the classic talk that richard feynman gave on december 29th 1959 at the annual meeting of the american physical society at caltech and was first published in the february 1960 issue of caltech s engineering and science.
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There s plenty of room at the bottom nanotechnology lecture 1959 speakola 29 december 1959 pasadena california usa richard feymann was a nobel prize winning physicist and the father s of nanotechnology.
Although versions of the talk were reprinted in a few popular magazines it went largely unnoticed and did not inspire the concept.
1959 this is the transcript of a talk presented by richard p.
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This article was very different from the other commonly written topics on physics at that time.
Feynman considered the possibility of direct manipulation of individual atoms as a more powerful form of synthetic chemistry than those used at the time.