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Tuesday, July 18, 2017
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Don Eigler lectureRamphal Lecture TheatreDonald M. Eigler Director,The Wetnose Institute For Advanced Pelagic Studies
“Atom Manipulation – The Story and the People”
Tuesday 18th July, 11:30 am, Ramphal Lecture Theatre. Tea and coffee will be available from 11:00
In 1959 Richard Feynman gave a remarkably prescient and now-famous talk titled "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom" in which he spoke of the possibilities afforded by extreme miniaturization. In that talk he discussed a "great future" in which "we can arrange the atoms the way we want." Thirty years later, in 1989, we had the good fortune to achieve that milestone. Feynman's "great future" was ushered in with the discovery of ways to manipulate individual atoms using a scanning tunneling microscope. My dual goals in this presentation are to relate a story of discovery -- how we learned to manipulate atoms – and to share with you some sense of the excitement, humor and joy we found in the journey.
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