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    Nathaniel David Mermin (/ˈmɜːrmɪn/; born 30 March 1935) is a solid-state physicist at Cornell University best known for the eponymous Hohenberg–Mermin–Wagner...
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  • colloquial name Ashcroft and Mermin, is an introductory condensed matter physics textbook written by Neil Ashcroft and N. David Mermin. Published in 1976 by...
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    Bennett, Gilles Brassard and N. David Mermin in 1992. It is named after the trio's surnames as (Bennett, Brassard and Mermin, BBM92). It uses decoy state...
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  • exist at a far broader range of temperatures. The boojum was named by N. David Mermin of Cornell University in 1976. He was inspired by Lewis Carroll's poem...
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    Zeilinger in 1989, and the three-particle version was introduced by N. David Mermin in 1990. Extremely non-classical properties of the state have been...
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  • by the physicist N. David Mermin in 1981. Richard Feynman told Mermin that it was "One of the most beautiful papers in physics". Mermin later described...
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  • probably still the most widely held attitude about quantum mechanics. N. David Mermin coined the phrase "Shut up and calculate!" to summarize Copenhagen-type...
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  • apply such methods to the study of science. Solid-state physicist N. David Mermin understands the science wars as a series of exchanges between scientists...
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  • a significant part of it was likewise independently discovered by NDavid Mermin. Thanks to its complicated history, it is also known by various other...
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    to summarize Bohr's philosophy in a reminiscence after his death. N. David Mermin recalled Victor Weisskopf declaring that Bohr wouldn't have said anything...
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