The first person to refer to the possibilities of nanoscience and nanotechnology was theoretical physicist Richard Feynman in a speech called “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom,” delivered in California in 1959. In 1965, Feynman received the Nobel Prize in Physics.
The term nanotechnology, on the other hand, did not appear until 1974, when it was used by Professor Norio Taniguchi. However, it was the American engineer K. Eric Drexler, inspired by Feynman’s work, who coined the term nanotechnology in his book Engines of Creation:The Coming Era of Nanotechnology. It was precisely Drexler’s work that established nanotechnology as a discipline.