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Feb 04, 1927 Stuttgart, Baden Württemberg, Germany Died on 28 Apr 1999 (aged 72)
American-German physicist, engineer
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About Rolf Landauer
- 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.
