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The scanning tunneling microscope (STM) has been hailed as the "key enablingdiscovery for nanotechnology," the catalyst for a scientific field that attracts nearly $20billion in funding each year. In Instrumental Community, Cyrus Mody argues that thistechnology-centric view does not explain how these microscopes helped to launch nanotechnology--andfails to acknowledge the agency of the microscopists in making the STM and its variants criticallyimportant tools. Mody tells the story of the invention, spread, and commercialization of scanningprobe microscopy in terms of the networked structures of collaboration and competition that cameinto being within a diverse, colorful, and sometimes fractious community of researchers. By forminga community, he argues, these researchers were able to innovate rapidly, share the microscopes witha wide range of users, and generate prestige (including the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics) and profit(as the technology found applications in industry). Mody shows that both the technology of probemicroscopy and the community model offered by the probe microscopists contributed to the developmentof political and scientific support for nanotechnology and the global funding initiatives thatfollowed. In the course of his account, Mody charts the shifts in U.S. science policy over the lastforty years--from the decline in federal basic research funding in the 1970s through the rise inacademic patenting in the 1980s to the emergence of nanotechnology discourse in the 1990s--that haveresulted in today's increasing emphasis on the commercialization of academic research.
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Cyrus C. M. Mody is Assistant Professor in the History Department at Rice University.
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