ABSTRACT

″I sit before you today with very little hair on my head. It fell out a few weeks ago as a result of the chemotherapy I've been undergoing Twenty years ago, without even this crude chemotherapy, I would already be dead But 20 years from now, nanoscale missiles will target cancer cells in the human body and leave everything else blissfully alone I may not live to see it. But I am confident it will happen.″ Richard Smalley, a 62-year-old Nobel Prize-winning chemist, was a nanotech pioneer who spoke these words on June 22, 1999. He died of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma on October 28, 2005.