Assertion: nanotechnology | /r/HasProperty | predicted in almost-forgotten 1959 lecture
Facets:
value: much earlier
type: TEMPORAL
value: by nobel laureate richard feynman
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: This new name was popularized by physicist K. Eric Drexler, who pointed out that nanotechnology had been predicted much earlier, in an almost-forgotten 1959 lecture by Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman, who proposed the idea of building machines and mechanical devices out of individual atoms.