There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom

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There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom is the title of a 1959 lecture and essay by Richard Feynman, exploring the possibilities of synthetic chemistry's extension into atomic-scale machinery. Collected in books such as 1961's Miniaturization and republished in popular magazines, it is considered pivotal in the early definition and popularization of nanotechnology.

Topics and development[править]

Nanoscale manipulators, Waldo by Robert Heinlein

Albert Hibbs and nanomedicine

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In the initial lecture to the American Physical Society at Caltech, Feynman issued two challenges, with a $1,000 prize each:

Miniaturized motor[править]

William McLellan, 1960

Miniaturized text[править]

Tom Newman, 1985

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