K. Eric Drexler

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Kim Eric Drexler (born April 25, 1955) is an American engineer known for his work on molecular nanotechnology (MNT) and his studies of its potential in the 1970s and 1980s. His 1991 doctoral thesis at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was revised and published as the book Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing and Computation (1992), which received the Association of American Publishers award for Best Computer Science Book of 1992. He has been called the "godfather of nanotechnology".

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