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K. Eric Drexler
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American engineer (born 1955)
OverviewAI-generated
K. Eric Drexler, born on 25 April 1955, is an American engineer, physicist and writer whose field of work spans nanotechnology and futures studies. He was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where his doctoral advisor was Marvin Minsky. He has five listed published works, including Engines of Creation, Nanosystems, Unbounding the Future, and Radical Abundance. He holds United States citizenship.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1955
- Works
- 5
Top works
- Unbounding the future
- Radical Abundance
- Radical abundance
- Nanosystems
- Engines of creation
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1945-03-30
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 3
- Total plays
- 4
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles
· 2005 · cited 48,815x
- UCSF Chimera—A visualization system for exploratory research and analysis
· 2004 · cited 44,312x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,455x
- The Genome Analysis Toolkit: A MapReduce framework for analyzing next-generation DNA sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 26,069x
- Array programming with NumPy
· 2020 · cited 23,422x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1955-04-25 ) April 25, 1955 (age 71) , Alameda, California , U.S.
- Citizenship
- United States
- Alma mater
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS, MS, PhD)
- Known for
- Foresight Institute
- Spouses
- Christine Peterson ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1981 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2002 ) Rosa Wang ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2006 )
- Fields
- Engineering , molecular nanotechnology
- Thesis
- Molecular Machinery and Manufacturing With Applications to Computation (1991)
- Doctoral advisor
- Marvin Minsky
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Eric
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Alameda
- Occupation
- writer
- Educated at
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Doctoral advisor
- Marvin Minsky
- Field of work
- futures studies
- Official website
- www.e-drexler.com
- Image
- Eric Drexler 2007.jpg
Show 2 more facts
- date of birth
- 1955-04-25
- Commons category
- Eric Drexler
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Encyclopedic overview
Kim Eric Drexler (born April 25, 1955) is an American engineer best known for introducing molecular nanotechnology (MNT), and his studies of its potential from the 1970s and 1980s. His 1991 doctoral thesis at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was revised and published as the book Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery Manufacturing and Computation (1992), which received the Association of American Publishers award for Best Computer Science Book of 1992. He has been called the "godfather of nanotechnology".
Life and work
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