Donald Eigler is an American physicist born March 23, 1953, based at the IBM Almaden Research Center. In 1989 he became the first person to use a scanning tunneling microscope tip to arrange individual atoms on a surface, spelling out the letters IBM with 35 xenon atoms, and he later created quantum corrals and nanoscale logic circuits using carbon monoxide molecules. He shared the 2010 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience with Nadrian Seeman.
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Donald Mark Eigler (March 23, 1953) is an American physicist associated with nanotechnology at the IBM Almaden Research Center.
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Donald Mark Eigler (March 23, 1953) is an American physicist associated with nanotechnology at the IBM Almaden Research Center.
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In 1989, Eigler was the first to use a scanning tunneling microscope tip to arrange individual atoms on a surface, spelling out the letters "IBM" with 35 xenon atoms.
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Donald Mark Eigler (March 23, 1953) is an American physicist associated with nanotechnology at the IBM Almaden Research Center.
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He was elected in 1995 a Fellow of the American Physical Society and in 1999 a Fellow of the American As
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He was elected in 1995 a Fellow of the American Physical Society and in 1999 a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. ==References==
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