Lewis Carroll created the mythical boojum in a famous nonsense poem. A century later, Cornell University theoretical physicist David Mermin decided that "boojum" was the perfect name for a new ...

The Electronic Journal of Theoretical Physics has named David Mermin, the Horace White Professor of Physics Emeritus, "Best Person in Physics" for 2010. Mermin, who joined the Cornell faculty in 1964, ...

THE author has an idea: 16 to 18-year-olds should be taught special relativity at school. Most students learn it only if they take physics at university: the theory is considered too complicated any ...

Cambridge Univ. Press: 2007. 236 pp. £30. Although those well versed in the field will quibble that he has left out a particular part of the field, Mermin's focus on a detailed exposition of a few ...

Prague, Sept 26 (CTK) – American solid-state physicist Nathaniel David Mermin will receive the annual Vision 97 prize from the Dagmar and Vaclav Havel Foundation on October 5, Eva Gajdosova told CTK ...