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Nathaniel David Mermin

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American physicist

United StatesScientistsBorn 1935 · age 91
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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...

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Awards 6

2017The VIZE 97 Prize
2010Majorana Prize
2002Wolfgang Paul Lecture
1989Lilienfeld Prize
Fellow of the American Physical Society
Guggenheim Fellowship

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Hagen KleinertAlso won Majorana PrizePaul CorkumAlso won Wolfgang Paul LectureRamamurti ShankarAlso won Lilienfeld PrizeKonrad Paul LiessmannAlso won The VIZE 97 PrizeValentine TelegdiAlso won Lilienfeld PrizeRolf-Dieter HeuerAlso won Wolfgang Paul Lecture

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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.

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United States
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Born 1935 · age 91
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