Norio Taniguchi

Norio Taniguchi was a Japanese engineer credited with coining the term 'nano-technology'. A professor at the Tokyo University of Science, he introduced the word in a 1974 paper to describe the precision machining and processing of materials to tolerances of a nanometer or less, distinguishing this ultra-precise engineering from conventional micro-scale manufacturing. Though his original usage referred mainly to top-down precision machining rather than the molecular-assembly vision later associated with the field, his coinage became the standard name for the broader discipline of engineering at the nanometer scale. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/