Rolf Landauer

Rolf William Landauer (1927–1999) was an IBM physicist who in 1961 argued that when information is lost in an irreversible circuit, the information becomes entropy and an associated amount of energy is dissipated as heat. This principle is relevant to reversible computing, quantum information and quantum computing. Landauer was born on February 4, 1927, in Stuttgart, Germany. He emigrated to the United States in 1938 to escape Nazi persecution of... more

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  • Feb 4, 1927

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  • Apr 27, 1999 (age 72 years)
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