“The Benefits of Cause-Neutrality”
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K. Eric Drexler
Kim Eric Drexler is an American engineer best known for introducing molecular nanotechnology (MNT), and his studies of its potential from the 1970s and 1980s. 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…
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science · American engineer (born 1955) · engineer · physicist · writer · also K. Eric Drexler, Eric Drexler, Kim Eric Drexler, Drexler
Born 25 April 1955 · Q380511
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2006· 1 entry
Drexler married Rosa Wang, a former investment banker who works with Ashoka: Innovators for the Public on improving the social capital markets
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1981· 3 entries
Drexler wrote a seminal research article, published by PNAS, "Molecular engineering: An approach to the development of general capabilities for molecular manipulation"
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Drexler married Christine Peterson
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“Molecular engineering: An approach to the development of general capabilities for molecular manipulation”
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1979· 2 entries
Encountered Richard Feynman's provocative 1959 talk "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom"
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In Astro/Aerospace Engineering with a master's thesis titled "Design of a High Performance Solar Sail System"
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1974· 1 entry
To describe the precision manufacture of materials with nanometer tolerances, and Drexler unknowingly used a related term in his 1986 book Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology to describe what later beca
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1955· 1 entry
Born 1955-04-25.
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