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Donald M. "Don" Eigler is an American physicist associated with the IBM Almaden Research Center before founding the Wetnose Institute for Advanced Pelagic Studies. He is noted for his achievements in nanotechnology. Notably, he and Erhard K. Schweizer are the first people to move and precisely control a single atom. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and IBM. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences in applied physical sciences and physics, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Max Planck Society, and the United States National Academy of Sciences.

Early life and education
Growing up, Don spent a lot of his time designing and building various gadgets and tried to get them to work. Majoring in physics, he graduated from the University of California San Diego for his undergrad and doctorate degrees in 1975 and 1984, respectively.

Career
Donald did his postdoctoral work at AT&T Bell Labs for two years. He then joined IBM in 1986 as a research staff member and stayed with IBM for the majority of his career. His research was focused on understanding the physics of nanometer-scale structures and their applications to computers. He is best known for manipulating 35 individual xenon atoms with a low-temperature scanning tunneling microscope (STM) in 1989. Moving atoms one by one, he famously spelled out the letters "IBM". Eigler's 1989 research, along with Erhard K. Schweizer, involved a new use of the scanning tunneling microscope, which had been invented in the mid 1980s by Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer, also of IBM. The microscope had previously been used for atomic-resolution imaging, but this was the first time it had been used as an active technique, to precisely position individual atoms on a surface. The technique requires vacuum conditions and ultra-cold temperatures achieved by liquid helium cooling, and was featured on the cover of the journal Nature. At the time, it was seen as a potential first step towards applications in mechanosynthesis, where chemical reactions could be manipulated one molecule at a time.

He was the founding leader of the Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Project at IBM’s Almaden Research Center. The group is credited with discovery of the quantum mirage effect, demonstrated a new way to transport information through a solid, created nanometer-scale logic circuits based on molecular cascades, and invented a new technique to study the magnetic properties of nanometer-scale structures; spin excitation spectroscopy. His group also created the first quantum corrals, which are well-defined quantum wave patterns of small numbers of atoms, and nanoscale logic circuits using individual molecules of carbon monoxide. He shared the 2010 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience with Nadrian Seeman for these breakthroughs.

Don was named an IBM Fellow in 1993, the highest technical honor in the IBM Corporation, and retired from IBM in 2011 to found the Wetnose Institute for Advanced Pelagic Studies.

Personal life
Outside of his scientific pursuits, Don is as a service dog trainer. The canines he trains assist people with mobility impairments. He also is a surfer, backpacker, and rebuilds cars as a hobby. He lives in Santa Cruz with his wife and their two dogs.

Honors and awards
Donald has been appointed multiple honorary lectureships, including the Loeb Lectureship at Harvard University and the Bethe Lectureship at Cornell University. He has an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Delft, serves on multiple advisory boards including the Center for Quantum Nanoscience, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, and is a founding member of the Wetnose Institute for Advanced Pelagic.
 * 2017: Visionary Award
 * 2017: Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Warwick
 * 2011: Award for Research Excellence in Nanotechnology, Nano/Bio Interface Center
 * 2010: Kavli Prize in Nanoscience
 * 20??: UCSD’s Top 100 Influential Alumni
 * 2001: Davisson–Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics
 * 1999: Nanoscience Prize, 5th International Conference on Atomically Controlled Surfaces, Interfaces and Nanostructures [ACSIN], Aix-en-Provence
 * 1999: Outstanding Alumnus Of The Year, University of California, San Diego
 * 1995: Dannie-Heineman Prize, Academy of Sciences
 * 1993: Newcomb Cleveland Prize, American Association for the Advancement of Science
 * 1990: Grand Award for Science and Technology, Popular Science