In his seminal lecture, "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom," given at the 1959 annual meeting of the American Physical Society, American physicist Richard Feynman posed the possibility of direct manipulation of single atoms as a form of synthetic chemistry more powerful than the methods in use at the time. His revolutionary ideas were an invitation to enter a new field of physics, describing a set of challenges and possible solutions that would later be realized in the fields of microelectronics, microelectromechanical systems, microbiology, and be stretched even further by nanotechnology (a term introduced much later by Norio Taniguchi of the Tokyo Science University in 1974).
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