'Plenty of room' revisited - p781

doi:10.1038/nnano.2009.356

Who was Richard Feynman and what did he actually say about nanotechnology?

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Plenty of room, plenty of history - pp783 - 784

Chris Toumey

doi:10.1038/nnano.2009.357

A 1959 lecture by Richard Feynman has become an important document in the history of nanotechnology but there are disagreements about when it became important, and why.

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Feynman's unfinished business - pp785

Richard Jones

doi:10.1038/nnano.2009.358

Irrespective of what he got right and what he got wrong in his famous 1959 lecture, Richard Feynman's vision and imagination have had an important role in the development of nanoscience and nanotechnology.

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Surely you're happy, Mr Feynman! - pp786 - 788

Michael Segal

doi:10.1038/nnano.2009.360

In 1959 Richard Feynman called for researchers to improve the resolution of the electron microscope, and they have — but resolution is only part of the story.

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Atomic force microscopy as a tool for atom manipulation - pp803 - 810

Oscar Custance, Ruben Perez and Seizo Morita

doi:10.1038/nnano.2009.347

This article reviews the emergence of the atomic force microscope as a tool capable of creating nanostructures at room temperature, one atom at a time.

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Thesis:

The man who understood the Feynman machine

Chris Toumey

doi:10.1038/nnano.2006.187

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News & Views:

New directions for chemical maps

Leslie J. Allen

doi:10.1038/nnano.2008.116

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Letter to Nature:

Positioning single atoms with a scanning tunnelling microscope

D. M. Eigler & E. K. Schweizer

doi:10.1038/344524a0

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