Landauer is a surname, originally referring to somebody from
Landau
Landau ( pfl, Landach), officially Landau in der Pfalz, is an autonomous (''kreisfrei'') town surrounded by the Südliche Weinstraße ("Southern Wine Route") district of southern Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is a university town (since 1990 ...
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Carl Landauer Carl may refer to:
*Carl, Georgia, city in USA
*Carl, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
* Carl (name), includes info about the name, variations of the name, and a list of people with the name
*Carl², a TV series
* "Carl", an episode of te ...
(1891–1983), German economist
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Gustav Landauer
Gustav Landauer (7 April 1870 – 2 May 1919) was one of the leading theorists on anarchism in Germany at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. He was an advocate of social anarchism and an avowed pacifist.
In 1919, he ...
(1870–1919), German anarchist, writer, and critic
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Kurt Landauer
Kurt Landauer (28 July 1884 – 21 December 1961) was a German football official. His profession often listed as ''Kaufmann'' ("merchant"), he was head of the advertising department of the major Munich daily newspaper ''Münchner Neueste Nachrich ...
(1884–1961), German football official
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M. H. Landauer M. H. Landauer (1808 – February 3, 1841) was a writer on Jewish mysticism, born at Kappel, near Buchau, Württemberg in Germany. He was a son of the cantor Elias Landauer, and at the age of 18 entered the yeshiva and lyceum in Karlsruhe; later he ...
(1808–1841), German rabbi and writer on Jewish mysticism
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Robert S. Landauer (1924–2004), American scientist specializing in radiation measurement
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Rolf Landauer
Rolf William Landauer (February 4, 1927 – April 27, 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 disor ...
(1927–1999), German-American physicist
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Samuel Landauer
Samuel Landauer (22 February 1846 at Hürben, Bavaria – 1937 in Augsburg) was a German Jewish orientalist and librarian.
He received his education at the Yeshiva of Eisenstadt (Hungary), the gymnasium of Mainz, and the universities of Leip ...
(1846–1937), German orientalist and librarian
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Thomas Landauer Dr. Thomas K. Landauer (April 25, 1932 – March 26, 2014) was a Professor Emeritus at the Department of Psychology of the University of Colorado. He received his doctorate in 1960 from Harvard University, and also held academic appointments at Harv ...
(1932–2014), American professor of psychology
* Walter Landauer (1910–1983), Austrian pianist best known as half of the
Rawicz and Landauer
Rawicz and Landauer were an immensely popular piano duo team that performed from 1932 to 1970. They were initially based in Vienna, Austria, but moved to the United Kingdom in the early part of their career. They were known for their arrangemen ...
piano duo
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Landau (surname) Landau is a surname. A variation of Landau is Landauer. Notable people with the surname include:
* Barry Landau, American collector alleged to have stolen thousands of historical documents
* Bina Landau (1925–1988), Polish-born American Jewish ...
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Landauer's principle
Landauer's principle is a physical principle pertaining to the lower theoretical limit of energy consumption of computation. It holds that "any logically irreversible manipulation of information, such as the erasure of a bit or the merging of two ...
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Landor may refer to:
People
* Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864), English poet
* Robert Eyres Landor (1781–1869), English writer and clergyman, brother of Walter Savage Landor
* Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1865–1924), English painte ...
German-language surnames
Jewish surnames
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