Engineers whose defining technological contribution operates at the nanometer scale: nanoscale materials, nanoscale fabrication and manipulation techniques, and devices whose function depends on structure at that scale rather than on bulk material properties. Belongs here: engineers credited with a specific nanoscale fabrication method or nanomaterial rather than a conventional-scale device that merely uses a nanomaterial as one component. Does not belong here: the bulk-scale materials science that Materials Engineering already covers, or a finished consumer device that happens to contain a nanoscale component but whose engineering contribution is at the device level.
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1. Wikipedia: Engineering
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The traditional disciplines of engineering are civil, mechanical, electrical, and chemical.
2. Wikipedia: Nanotechnology
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The concepts that seeded nanotechnology were first discussed in 1959 by physicist Richard Feynman in his talk There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom, in which he described the possibility of synthesis via direct manipulation of atoms.
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