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One of the most outspoken critics of some concepts of "molecular assemblers" was Professor Richard Smalley (1943-2005) who won the Nobel Prize for his contributions to the field of nanotechnology. Smalley believed that such assemblers were not physically possible and introduced scientific objections to them. His two principal technical objections were termed the "fat fingers problem" and the "sticky fingers problem". He believed

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