Irrespective of what he got right and what he got wrong in his famous 1959 lecture, Richard ... IBM spelt out with a scanning tunnelling microscope 2 easily surpassed Feynman's expectations ...

This is an illustration of a buckydiamondoid molecule under a scanning tunneling microscope (STM). The sharp metallic tip of the STM ends in a single atom; as it scans over a sample, electrons ...

Who was Richard ... still taking shape, Feynman's Caltech rival and colleague Murray Gell-Mann had yet to propose the quark model of particle physics, and scanning probe microscopes and carbon ...