Notable Figures in Nanotechnology
- Vicki Colvin Director for the Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology, Rice University
- Norio Taniguchi - coined the term "nano-technology"
- Richard Feynman - gave the first mention of some of the distinguishing concepts in a 1959 talk
- Eric Drexler - was the first to theorise about nanotechnology in depth and popularised the subject
- Robert Freitas - nanomedicine theorist
- Ralph Merkle - nanotechnology theorist
- Joseph Wang - pioneer in electrochemical sensors xploiting nanostructured materials; synthetic nanomotors
- Sumio Iijima - discoverer of carbon nanotube
- Richard Smalley - co-discoverer of buckminsterfullerene
- Harry Kroto - co-discoverer of buckminsterfullerene
- Erwin Wilhelm Müller - invented the field ion microscope, and the atom probe.
- Gerd Binnig - co-inventor of the scanning tunneling microscope
- Heinrich Rohrer - co-inventor of the scanning tunneling microscope
- Chris Phoenix - co-founder of the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology
- Mike Treder - co-founder of the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology
- Phaedon Avouris - first electronic devices made out of carbon nanotubes
- Akhlesh Lakhtakia - conceptualized sculptured thin films
- Alex Zettl - Built the first molecular motor based on carbon nanotubes
- Andre Geim - Discoverer of 2-D carbon film called graphene
- Carlo Montemagno - inventor ATP nanobiomechanical motor (UCLA)
- Russell M. Taylor II - co-director of the UNC CISMM
- Adriano Cavalcanti - nanorobot expert working at CAN
- Lajos P. Balogh - editor in chief of Nanomedicine: NBM journal
- Charles M. Lieber - pioneer on nanoscale materials (Harvard)
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