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Nanoscale science involves the study, understanding and control of matter at the level of atoms.
In the late 1950's, only the Nobel Prize winning physicist Richard Feynman truly understood that it was possible in principle to observe and manipulate atoms. Today, with the scanning tunneling microscope, which was invented in the early 1980's, hundreds of laboratories all over the world routinely obtain pictures of material surfaces in which one can identify atoms. Scientists have even built structures and spelled out words by pushing individual atoms around on a surface. Many research groups around the world are working hard to turn nanoscience into a technology. One goal is to build electronic circuits from multiple components that assemble themselves because of their chemical interactions with one another.