No one can doubt that Richard Feynman's 1959 lecture, 'There's plenty of room at the bottom', has been central to the process by which the nascent discipline of nanotechnology has developed its ...

It isn’t really a book, but Richard Feynman’s Appendix to the Challenger Disaster Report is still definitely something you should read. It’s not particularly long, but it’s educational ...

“Science,” the great theoretical physicist Richard Feynman wrote, “is the belief in the ignorance of experts.” The incorrigibly curious Feynman knew that skepticism and a willingness to ...

Who was Richard Feynman and what did he actually say about nanotechnology? Back in 1959 it was only six years since Crick and Watson had determined the double-helix structure of DNA, the laser and ...

Richard Feynman's talk anticipating nanotechnology was inspirational, but no blueprint. Popular accounts of the history of nanotechnology typically begin 50 years ago this month, with Richard ...

That’s what Richard Feynman, a theoretical physicist, thought—at least in theory. According to many possibly apocryphal sources, the Nobel Prize-winner once said, “If you cannot explain ...

In 1959, physicist and Nobel prize laureate Richard Feynman presents "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom" at a meeting of the American Physical Society and introduces the concept of nanotechnology – ...