Richard Phillips Feynman was an American physicist and Nobel Laureate whose 1959 lecture, “There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom,” is often credited with inspiring the development of nanotechnology. Feynman was born in 1918 in New York City, and died in 1988 in Los Angeles, California. He received a bachelor's degree in 1939 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a doctorate in 1942 from Princeton University. He was a professor of physics at Cornell University from 1945 to 1950 and at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) from 1950 onward. In 1965, he was one of three physicists awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for the development of quantum electrodynamics. Feynman is widely credited for sparking initial interest in nanoscale work with a lecture he gave on December 29, 1959, at a meeting of the American Physical Society at Caltech. Feynman's lecture was published as an article titled, “There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom,” in Engineering & Science in 1960, …