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Why is Feynman's 1959 lecture considered the founding document of nanotechnology even though it proposed no specific technique?
Nanostructures and Nanomaterials
Quantum Electrodynamics
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Feynman's "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom" lecture anticipates nanotechnology
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