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A 1959 lecture by Richard Feynman has become an important document in the history of nanotechnology but, as Chris Toumey reports, there are disagreements about when it became important, and why.

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  1. Chris Toumey is at the University of South Carolina NanoCenter. Toumey@mailbox.sc.edu,

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Toumey, C. Plenty of room, plenty of history. Nature Nanotech 4, 783–784 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2009.357

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