nanotechnologist

noun

Someone who does research into nanotechnology; someone studying things on the scale of nanometers.

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Meanings

nounnanotechnologist (plural nanotechnologists)

plural nanotechnologists

  1. Someone who does research into nanotechnology; someone studying things on the scale of nanometers.

    By controlling matter at this size, nanotechnologists hope to fabricate devices and materials with novel, seemingly magical properties.

    2007 September 23, Jason Pontin, “In Tiny Particles, a Big Link in Jerusalem”, in New York Times

Origin

From nanotechnology + -ist.

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