What is Rolf Landauer's full name?
Rolf William Landauer
Rolf Landauer date of birth:
February 4, 1927
How old was Rolf Landauer when died?
72
Where was Rolf Landauer born?
Stuttgart, Germany
When did Rolf Landauer die?
April 27, 1999
Where did Rolf Landauer die?
Briarcliff Manor, New York, United States
Rolf Landauer body shape:
Average
What color are Rolf Landauer's eyes?
Blue
What color is Rolf Landauer's hair?
Grey
Is Rolf Landauer gay or straight?
Straight
What religion is Rolf Landauer?
Jewish
What is Rolf Landauer's ethnicity?
White
What is Rolf Landauer nationality?
German
Where did Rolf Landauer go to school?
Stuyvesant High School
Where did Rolf Landauer go to university?
Harvard University
What is Rolf Landauer's occupation?
Physicist
Rolf Landauer claim to fame:
IEEE Edison Medal, Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize
Short Biography
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.