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Nobel Laureate Eyes Nanoscale Manufacturing in New Engineering Lecture SeriesNobel Laureate Heinrich Rohrer, inventor of the scanning tunneling microscope, will inaugurate a new National Science Foundation engineering lecture series with a talk titled The Nanometer Age: Challenges and Chances. Rohrer will discuss recent advances in precision nanoscale science and technology, which will permit building things molecule by molecule and heralding a class of made-to-order materials with streamlined structures and properties. Ultra-precise medical instruments could permit surgeons to operate on individual cells. Materials dozens of times stronger than steel of the same weight could be produced. The ability to manipulate molecules would greatly contribute to an emerging field of science that explores how to arrange conditions so that atoms spontaneously assemble into specific molecular structures. Rohrer and Gerd Binnig received the King Faisal Prize and the Hewlett Packard Europhysics Prize in 1984, and the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986. Rorher was inducted into the US National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1994. He joined IBM's Zurich research laboratory in 1963. For more information about the lecture and Rohrer, see: http://www.eng.nsf.gov/news/ne05001.htm
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