Plenty of Room at the Bottom

Plenty of Room at the Bottom

Nobel prize winning physicist, Richard Feynman, wrote an article in 1959. The title of the article was "There is Plenty of Room at the Bottom.": a call to action to physicists of the day to embrace an experimental exploration of the physics of the very tiny. He imagined what advancements, achieved through nanotechnology, might be like in the year 2000. His description is very inspiring, and presents the case very well how nanoscience is an area with plenty of room to explore. The effects go far beyond what he describes, and the technological reaches seen today are astounding. I will follow up with specifics and compare what Feynman predicted with what has been achieved since this was penned back in '59. Enjoy reading! 

-AW

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