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Tia Ghose

Science history: Richard Feynman gives a fun little lecture — and dreams up an entirely new field of physics — Dec. 29, 1959

Illustration of a spider-looking metal robot grasping a cancerous cell. .

Milestone: Vision of nanotechnology laid out

Date: Dec. 29, 1959

Where: Pasadena, California

Who: Richard Feynman

On a December day, Richard Feynman gave a fun little lecture at Caltech — and dreamed up an entirely new field of physics.

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