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K. Eric Drexler

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of K. Eric Drexler has received more than 273,057 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). K. Eric Drexler is the 295th most popular engineer (down from 271st in 2019), the 7,178th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,782nd in 2019) and the 32nd most popular American Engineer.

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  • 3.06

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, K. Eric Drexler ranks 295 out of 389. Before him are Peter Chen, Pavel Solovyov, Friedrich L. Bauer, Pat Symonds, Robert Esnault-Pelterie, and William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong. After him are Hesham Qandil, Peter Schreyer, Yaakov Ziv, Mal Evans, Franciszek Rychnowski, and Frederick Terman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, K. Eric Drexler ranks 317. Before him are Frankie Knuckles, Carol Shaw, Zbigniew Rau, Chen Quanguo, Susan Dougan, and David Twohy. After him are Yitang Zhang, Diamanda Galás, Ali Bencheikh, John Hinckley Jr., Aires Ali, and Kane Hodder.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, K. Eric Drexler ranks 7,178 out of 20,380. Before him are Rachel Chagall (1952), Ellen S. Baker (1953), Robert Goulet (1933), Rudy Rucker (1946), Peter Del Monte (1943), and Willis H. O'Brien (1886). After him are A Martinez (1948), Calvin Smith (1961), Sgt. Slaughter (1948), Oliver Hazard Perry (1785), John Geiger (1873), and Piper Perabo (1976).

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Among ENGINEERS In United States

Among engineers born in United States, K. Eric Drexler ranks 32. Before him are Rudy Van Gelder (1924), Ransom E. Olds (1864), Burt Rutan (1943), Alan Shugart (1930), Frances Spence (1922), and Donald Wills Douglas Sr. (1892). After him are Frederick Terman (1900), Hugh Latimer Dryden (1898), Robert H. Dennard (1932), T. Keith Glennan (1905), Jack Parsons (1914), and John Houbolt (1919).

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