Taniguchi: Norio

Japanese physicist Norio Taniguchi coins the term nanotechnology. 

Nanotechnology is the design, study and control of matter using the nanometer scale. This word was first used (defined) in 1974 by Japanese scientist Prof Norio Taniguchi at Tokyo Science University. 

Then in 1974, the word nanotechnology was coined by a Japanese professor named Norio Taniguchi when he talked about the specifics of making materials for the semiconductor industry. With a name, it was much easier to refer to it as a single line of study, and so people started to focus on what can be done at the nanoscale. 

The term nanotechnology was first defined in 1974 by Japanese Professor Norio Taniguchi as the processing, separation, consolidation, and deformation of materials by one atom or... 

In the 1970s scientists worked with nanoscale materials to create technology for space colonies. In 1974 Tokyo Science University professor Norio Taniguchi coined the term nano-technology. As he defined it, nanotechnology would be a manufacturing process whose materials were built by atoms or molecules. 

The term nanotechnology was first used in a paper presented by Norio Taniguchi of Tokyo University in 1974. This title was further developed in the 1980s by K. Eric Drexler in his 1991 MIT Ph.D. thesis (nanosystems, molecules, manufacturing, and computation) in speeches and in books such as Engines of Creation The Living Era of Nanotechnology (1986). ... 

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