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Subject: Feynman & Nanotechnology
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Actually, Drexler credits a 1959 lecture (also published in a journal) 
by Richard Feynman, Nobel prize-winner in physics, as one of the first 
to look at the idea of molecular engineering with some rigor.  The idea 
itself has been around a good deal longer than that.  For instance,
Robert Heinlein's 1945-1955 Future History series included "molar 
mechanics" as an important field of science and engineering.

                  Larry @ jpl-vlsi