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Article: IBM Celebrates 20th Anniversary of Moving Atoms; Twenty years ago, IBM Fellow Don Eigler changed the course of nanotechnology research.
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- September 28, 2009
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M2 PRESSWIRE-28 September 2009-IBM: IBM Celebrates 20th Anniversary of Moving Atoms; Twenty years ago, IBM Fellow Don Eigler changed the course of nanotechnology research(C)1994-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS
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San Jose, Calif -- 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 (NYSE: IBM) with 35 xenon atoms. This unprecedented ability to manipulate individual atoms signaled a quantum leap forward in in nanoscience experimentation and heralded in the age ...
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