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Date of Birth
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30-March-1935
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Place of Birth
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New Haven
(Connecticut, United States of America, New Haven County, Area code 203, Area code 475)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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N. David Mermin, Nathaniel David Mermin
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Profession
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Physicist
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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, and for the quote "Shut up and calculate!"
Together with Neil Ashcroft, Mermin has written an esteemed textbook, Solid State Physics, and numerous popularizations of physics and mathematics.
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