Outline of Nanotechnology - Notable Figures in Nanotechnology

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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