# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nathaniel-david-mermin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:15:36.467Z

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name: "Nathaniel David Mermin"
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description: "Nathaniel David Mermin is a solid-state physicist at Cornell University best known for the eponymous Hohenberg–Mermin–Wagner theorem, his application of the term \"boojum\" to superfluidity, his textbook with Neil Ashcroft on solid-state physics, and for contributions to the foundations of quantum mechanics and quantum information science."
tagline: "American physicist"
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birthDate: "1935-03-30"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump