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Article: IBM Celebrates 20th Anniversary of Moving Atoms.
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- September 28, 2009
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Twenty years ago, IBM Fellow Don Eigler changed the course of nanotechnology research
SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- On this day in 1989, IBM Fellow Don Eigler became the first person in history to move and control an individual atom. Shortly thereafter, on November 11 of that year, Eigler and his team used a custom-built microscope to spell out the letters IBM with 35 xenon atoms. This unprecedented ability to manipulate individual atoms signaled a quantum leap forward in nanoscience experimentation and heralded in the age of nanotechnology.
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