Nanotechnology Pioneers

People who named, imagined or first demonstrated technology at the scale of billionths of a meter, including the engineer who set out the case for molecular manufacturing, the professor who coined the word nano-technology to describe precision processing, and the physicist whose paper on carbon nanotubes opened a large field of research. A person belongs here when the cited article ties the person to the founding or naming of nanotechnology. It excludes chemists whose work was ordinary bulk materials.