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VIDEO: IBM celebrates 20th anniversary of moving atoms
Let's hear it for the scanning tunneling microscope
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28 September 2009 16:03 GMT / By Amy-Mae Elliott
On 28 September 1989, Dr Don Eigler became the first person in history to move and control an individual atom. Then, with a custom-built microscope, Eigers spelled out the letters I-B-M using individual atoms, "signaling a quantum leap forward in the field of nanotechnology"...
Hit play for the rest of story in this video marking this important achievement.
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