page_title: N. David Mermin
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caption_attribution_description: English: David Mermin during a talk at the AlbaNova University Center in Stockholm Deutsch: David Mermin während eines Vortrages am AlbaNova in Stockholm Svenska: David Mermin på föreläsningen på AlbaNova universitetscentrum i Stockholm
context_page_description: Nathaniel David Mermin is a solid-state physicist at Cornell University best known for the eponymous 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.
context_section_description: Nathaniel David Mermin (/ˈmɜːrmɪn/; born 1935) is a solid-state physicist at Cornell University best known for the eponymous 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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