process and are the basis for Landauer's own demonstration that communication, in principle, can be accomplished with arbitrarily little dissipation of energy. Rolf William Landauer died on 27 April 1999 at his home in Briarcliff Manor from brain cancer. Awards and honors Fellow, IEEE Member, National Academy of Engineering Member, National Academy of Sciences Member, European Academy of Sciences and Arts Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences Honorary doctorate, Technion in Israel 1991 Scott Lecturer at the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University 1992 Stuart Ballantine Medal of the Franklin Institute Centennial Medal by Harvard in 1993, Oliver E. Buckley Prize by the American Physical Society (1995) Moet Hennessey Louis Vuitton (LVMH) Science for Art Prize (1997) IEEE Edison Medal (1998) For pioneering contributions to the physics of computing and conduction. The Rolf Landauer Medal of the International ETOPIM Association (2009) The range of his work has been recognized in special issues of two journals, 10 years apart: the IBM Journal of Research and Development (January 1988) and Superlattices and Microstructures (March/April 1998). See also Persistent current Tunnel ionization References Further reading Perry, R. T. (2004). The temple of quantum computing. p. 26 – 27. Retrieved 11 January 2005. External links The 'Landauer' formula Bio at IEEE Global History Network Stuyvesant math team PhysicsWeb Obituary Nature Obituary Physicists confirm Landauer's conjecture Stuyvesant High School alumni Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences 1927 births 1999 deaths IBM Fellows Harvard University alumni Fellow Members of the IEEE German information theorists Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering IEEE Edison Medal recipients 20th-century German physicists Members of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts American information theorists Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize winners People from Briarcliff Manor, New York Jewish physicists Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States Mathematicians from New York (state) Deaths from brain tumor Fellows of the American Physical Society