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Sensing the importance of nanosensors: Feynman's visionary 1959 Christmas lecture

Vorahnung der Bedeutung von Nanosensoren: Der visionäre 1959 Weihnachtsvortrag von Feynman

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    Jozef T. Devreese

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“I will not now discuss how we are going to do it, but only what is possible in principle – in other words, what is possible according to the laws of physics.”

R. P. Feynman, There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom, December 29, 1959, California Institute of Technology

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Devreese, J.T. Sensing the importance of nanosensors: Feynman's visionary 1959 Christmas lecture. Somnologie 11, 268–271 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11818-007-0320-x

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