Nathaniel David Mermin
American physicist · United States · On the map · Scientists · Born 1935 · age 91
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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2017The VIZE 97 PrizeAward2010Majorana PrizeAward2002Wolfgang Paul LectureAward1989Lilienfeld PrizeAward1935Born30 March 1935
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Born 1935 · age 91
