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Autobiographical Notes of a Physicist

History and Philosophy of Physics 2024-01-10 v1 Statistical Mechanics Quantum Physics

Abstract

I describe aspects of my life in physics: the name I publish under, great physicists I have known, how I got into quantum foundations, what role I've played in it. My form is autobiographical, but my personal experience may illustrate what it was like being a physicist over the past 60 years. I offer some offbeat ways of thinking about some orthodox physics.

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@article{arxiv.2401.04711,
  title  = {Autobiographical Notes of a Physicist},
  author = {N. David Mermin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.04711},
  year   = {2024}
}

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17 pages, no figures

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