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February 4, 1927

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Rolf Landauer

1927Rolf Landauer, German-American physicist and academic (died 1999)[โ€ ]

Rolf William Landauer 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. Born in Germany, he emigrated to the U.S. in 1938, obtained a Ph.D. in physics from Harvard in 1950, and then spent most of his career at IBM.