Robert A. Freitas Jr. (born 1952) is an American
nanotechnologist.
Early life and education
Freitas was born in Camden, Maine. His father worked in agriculture and his mother was a homemaker. Freitas married Nancy, his
childhood sweetheart in 1974.[1]
In 1980, Freitas and William Gilbreath were participants in a NASA study regarding "Advanced Automation for Space Missions",[6] and they presented the feasibility of self-replicating machines in space, using advanced artificial intelligence and automation technologies.[7][8]
Freitas began writing his Nanomedicine book series in 1994.[9] Volume I, published in October 1999 by
Landes Bioscience while Freitas was a Research Fellow at the Institute for Molecular Manufacturing. Volume IIA was published in October 2003 by Landes Bioscience.[10]
In 2004, Freitas and
Ralph Merkle coauthored and published Kinematic Self-Replicating Machines, a comprehensive survey of the field of physical and hypothetical
self-replicating machines.[11]
^Andrew, Alex M. (2000). "NANOMEDICINE, VOLUME 1: BASIC CAPABILITIES, by Robert A. Freitas Jr., Landes Bioscience, Austin, Texas, 1999, xxi + 509 pp., ISBN 1-57059-645-X Index". Robotica. 18 (6). Cambridge University Press (CUP): 687–689.
doi:
10.1017/s0263574700212824.
ISSN0263-5747.
Bibliography
Robert A. Freitas Jr., Nanomedicine, Volume I: Basic Capabilities (Landes Bioscience, 1999)
ISBN1-57059-645-X
Robert A. Freitas Jr., Nanomedicine, Vol. IIA: Biocompatibility (Landes Bioscience, 2003)
ISBN1-57059-700-6
Robert A. Freitas Jr., Nanomedicine: Biocompatibility (S Karger Pub, 2004)
ISBN3-8055-7722-2
Robert A. Freitas Jr., Cryostasis Revival: The Recovery of Cryonics Patients through Nanomedicine (Alcor Life Extension Foundation, 2022)
ISBN978-0-9968153-5-2