Eric Drexler
Father of Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology
Nanotronics
United States of America
Biography
Kim Eric Drexler is an American engineer best known for popularizing the potential of molecular nanotechnology(MNT), from the 1970s and 1980s. His 1991 doctoral thesis at Massachusetts Institute of Technology 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 is the father of nanotechnology.
Research Interest
semiconductors, microchips, hard drives, LEDs, aerospace hardware, nano-fillers, nanotubes, nano-medicine,nanotronics imaging.
