K. Eric Drexler | |
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 Eric Drexler in 2013 | |
| Born | April 25, 1955 Alameda, California, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS, MS, PhD) |
| Known for | Foresight Institute |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Engineering, molecular nanotechnology |
| Thesis | Molecular Machinery and Manufacturing With Applications to Computation (1991) |
| Doctoral advisor | Marvin Minsky |
Kim Eric Drexler (born April 25, 1955) is an American engineer best known for introducing molecular nanotechnology (MNT), and his studies of its potential from the 1970s and 1980s.[1] His 1991 doctoral thesis at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was revised and published as the book Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery Manufacturing and Computation (1992), which received the Association of American Publishers award for Best Computer Science Book of 1992. He has been called the "godfather of nanotechnology".[2]
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