Field groups engineers by the branch of engineering where they did their central work. Wikipedia describes Nikola Tesla as "a Serbian-American engineer, futurist, and inventor" known chiefly for "the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system," squarely within electrical engineering. This dimension gathers engineers who worked mainly in the same field.
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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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