1927 - 1999
Rolf Landauer German Physicist
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German Physicist Rolf Landauer was born Rolf William Landauer on 4th February, 1927 in Stuttgart, Germany and passed away on 27th Apr 1999 Briarcliff Manor, New York, United States aged 72. He is most remembered for IEEE Edison Medal, Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize. His zodiac sign is Aquarius.
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Details
| First Name |
Rolf
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| Last Name |
Landauer
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| Full Name at Birth |
Rolf William Landauer
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| Birthday |
4th February, 1927
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| Birthplace |
Stuttgart, Germany
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| Died |
27th April, 1999
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| Place of Death |
Briarcliff Manor, New York, United States
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| Build |
Average
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| Eye Color |
Blue
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| Hair Color |
Grey
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| Zodiac Sign |
Aquarius
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| Sexuality |
Straight
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| Religion |
Jewish
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| Ethnicity |
White
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| Nationality |
German
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| High School |
Stuyvesant High School
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| University |
Harvard University
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| Occupation Text |
Physicist
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| Occupation |
Physicist
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| Claim to Fame |
IEEE Edison Medal, Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize
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Rolf William Landauer (February 4, 1927 – April 28, 1999) was a German-American physicist who made important contributions in diverse areas of the thermodynamics of information processing, condensed matter physics, and the conductivity of disordered media. In 1961 he discovered Landauer's principle, that in any logically irreversible operation that manipulates information, such as erasing a bit of memory, entropy increases and an associated amount of energy is dissipated as heat. This principle is relevant to reversible computing, quantum information and quantum computing. He also is responsible for the Landauer formula relating the electrical resistance of a conductor to its scattering properties. He won the Stuart Ballantine Medal of the Franklin Institute, the Oliver Buckley Prize of the American Physical Society and the IEEE Edison Medal, among many other honors.
