Lecture 1

Introduction, history and Timeline of Nanobiotechnology

Abstract It all began in the winter of December 1959 in a meeting at the California Institute of

Technology (CalTech) when a rather modest scientist (136 IQ compared to 142 of Einstein) who went by the name of Richard Feynman delivered a lecture titled There is plenty of room at the

bottom. Although it did not include the term Nanotechnology, the ideas and concepts of nanotechnology were the principal objective of the lecture.

Feynmans lecture opened up a new area of physics altogether. He described a process in which scientists could control and manipulate atoms and or anything which was in the size range 10^-9

meters. This revolutionized the entire world of physics and now we have the use of Nanotechnology everywhere, from fluoride nano-crystals in your toothpaste to gold nano particles use in the early detection of Cancer to future uses of nanobots to cure diseases

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