From “There′s Plenty of Room at the Bottom” to Seeing What is Actually There

Plenty of room at the bottom.

discovered a field like low temperature, which seems to be bottomless and in which one can go down and down. Such a man is then a leader and has some temporary monopoly in a scientific adventure. Percy Bridgman, in designing a way to obtain higher pressures, opened up another new field and was able to move into it and to lead us all along. The development of ever higher vacuum was a continuing ...

What is "Race-To-The-Bottom" Effect On FDI Inflow?

From the Editor in Chief: Plenty of Room at the Bottom

of his time in imagining what small might mean. In the late ’50s, while people imagined motors being reduced to the size of a fingernail, he foresaw a world by 2000 in which we could etch information onto materials at atomic scales. He calculated that ultimately, all the information then available in all the world’s libraries would fit in material one two-hundredths of an inch wide. In several ...

2 Room at the Bottom , Plenty of Tyranny at the Top

Richard Feynman is generally regarded as one of the fathers of nanotechnology. In giving his landmark presentation to the American Physical Society on December 29, 1959, at Caltech, his title line was, “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom.” At that time, Feynman extended an invitation for “manipulating and controlling things on a small scale, thereby entering a new field of physics which wa...

In situ phytoplankton analysis: there's plenty of room at the bottom.

In Situ Phytoplankton Analysis: There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom Jeffrey S. Erickson, Nastaran Hashemi, James M. Sullivan, Alan D. Weidemann, and Frances S. Ligler* Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering, Naval Research Laboratory, Code 6900, Washington, D.C. 20375-5438, United States WET Laboratories, Inc., Department of Research, 70 Dean Knauss Drive, Narragansett, Rhode Island ...