# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/k-eric-drexler
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:37:54.447Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/k-eric-drexler"
name: "K. Eric Drexler"
slug: "k-eric-drexler"
description: "Kim Eric Drexler 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\"."
tagline: "American engineer (born 1955)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Eric_Drexler_2007.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1955-04-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump