December 15, 2000

Nanotechnology Moves From Wishful Thinking to Real Research

By PETER MONAGHAN

At first, nanotechnology was truly science fiction.

In 1959, Richard P. Feynman, who later won the Nobel Prize in Physics, suggested that scientists could learn to make materials by manipulating matter

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at the atomic level, and then use that ability

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