Rolf Landauer

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German-American physicist person physicist

Rolf Landauer was a German-American physicist best known for formulating Landauer's principle, which links information theory and thermodynamics by quantifying the minimum possible energy cost of erasing a bit of information.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	German-American physicist → person → physicist →
academicDegree	PhD in physics →
awardReceived	Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize →
birthCountry	Germany →
birthDate	1927-02-04 →
birthPlace	Stuttgart →
citizenship	Germany → United States of America →
deathDate	1999-04-27 →
doctoralAdvisor	John Gamble Kirkwood →
educatedAt	Harvard University → Yale University →
employer	IBM → IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center →
familyName	Landauer →
fieldOfWork	condensed matter physics → information theory → physics → statistical mechanics →
givenName	Rolf →
influenced	Charles H. Bennett → Wojciech H. Zurek → research on quantum information theory → research on reversible computing →
knownFor	Landauer's principle → Landauer–Büttiker formalism → work on electrical conduction in disordered media → work on the thermodynamics of computation →
language	English → German →
memberOf	American Academy of Arts and Sciences → American Physical Society → National Academy of Sciences →
name	Rolf Landauer →
nationality	American → German →
occupation	physicist → research scientist →
placeOfDeath	Yonkers, New York →
publicationTopic	irreversibility in computation → mesoscopic physics → thermodynamics of information →
theoryFormulated	Landauer's principle →
workedOn	electrical transport in inhomogeneous media → noise in mesoscopic conductors →

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Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Rolf Landauer ("Landauer") →	familyName
Maxwell's demon thought experiment →	inspiredWorkBy
Rolf Landauer →	name
Landauer's principle →	namedAfter
Landauer's principle →	statedBy