Rolf Nevanlinna's mother Margareta Romberg was German ; she was the daughter of the German astronomer Herman Romberg.

The opening ceremony of the International Congress of Mathematicians ( ICM ) is where the awards are presented: Fields Medals ( two to four medals are given since 1936 ), the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize ( since 1986 ), the Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize ( since 2006 ), and the Chern Medal Award ( since 2010 ).

The Rolf Nevanlinna Prize is awarded once every 4 years at the International Congress of Mathematicians, for outstanding contributions in Mathematical Aspects of Information Sciences including:

The prize was established in 1981 by the Executive Committee of the International Mathematical Union IMU and named to honour the Finnish mathematician Rolf Nevanlinna who had died a year earlier.

The medal features a profile of Nevanlinna, the text " Rolf Nevanlinna Prize ", and very small characters " RH 83 " on its obverse.

Rolf Nevanlinna's brother Frithiof Nevanlinna ( 1894 – 1977 ) was a mathematics professor, whose son and grandson are mathematics professors.

Rolf Nevanlinna was married twice.

Rolf Nevanlinna studied at the University of Helsinki.

In the early 1920s Rolf Nevanlinna, partly in collaboration with his brother Frithiof, extended the theory to cover meromorphic functions, i. e. functions analytic in the plane except for isolated points in which the Laurent series of the function has a finite number of terms with a negative power of the variable.

Rolf Nevanlinna supervised at least 28 doctoral theses.

Although basically a person devoted to his science, Rolf Nevanlinna did not avoid admistrative duties.

Rolf Nevanlinna served as President of the International Mathematical Union, IMU, in 1959 – 63 and as President of the International Congress of Mathematicians, ICM, in 1962.

From 1954, Rolf Nevanlinna chaired the committee which set about the first computer project in Finland.

The Rolf Nevanlinna Prize is awarded every four years in the ICM.

Rolf Nevanlinna did not participate actively in politics, but in the thirties he was known to sympathise with the right-wing Patriotic People's Movement party and, partly because of his half German ancestry,

Rolf Nevanlinna was chosen to be the chairman of the committee, as a non-political person respected in Germany but loyal to Finland.

In 1965, Rolf Nevanlinna was an honorary guest in a function theory congress in Armenia.

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* October 22 – Rolf Nevanlinna, Finnish mathematician ( d. 1980 )

Rolf Armstrong ( April 21, 1889 – February 22, 1960 ) was an American painter of pin-up art.

Raeder's deputy, Admiral Rolf Carls wrote with pride in his diary in October 1941 that " all our forces have been deployed so often and so recklessly that never can the charge of tepidity be levelled against us ".

* October 6 – October 7 – The Donaueschinger Musiktage features the world premieres of Ernst Krenek's Double Concerto for viola, piano, and small orchestra, Rolf Liebermann's Piano Sonata, Pierre Boulez's Polyphonie X for 18 solo instruments, Hermann Reutter's Der himmlische Vagant, lyrische Portrait des F. Villon von Klabund for alto and baritone voices and instrumental ensemble, and Marcel Mihalovici's Étude en deux parties for piano and ensemble, as well as German first performances of works by Messiaen, Guido Turchi, Harsányi, Jelinek, and Honegger, and a performance of Henze's Third Symphony.

* Generalmajor Rolf Lippert ( 16 October 1944 – 5 February 1945 )

After the necessary additional State law was passed and came into effect on 1 October 2001, Rolf and Wolfgang were legally joined that same day at the local Registry Office.

* Rolf Rüssmann ( October 13, 1950-October 2, 2009 ): footballer and football manager

Professor Rolf Maximilian Sievert ( 6 May 1896 – 3 October 1966 ) was a medical physicist whose major contribution was in the study of the biological effects of radiation.

He had been appointed on 29 October 2007 as a manager of FC St. Gallen to replace Rolf Fringer.

* May 28 – Rolf Nevanlinna ( b. 1895 ), Finnish mathematician.

Image: Hjörvard and Rolf krake. jpg | Heoroweard and Hrólfr Kraki ( 1895 )

* 1999 – Rolf Landauer, American physicist and electrical engineer ( b. 1927 )

* 1983 – Rolf Stommelen, German race car driver ( b. 1943 )

* 1955 – Rolf Benirschke, American football player

* 1942 – Rolf Wenkhaus, German actor ( b. 1917 )

* 1920 – Rolf Huisgen, German chemist

* 1943 – Rolf Stommelen, German race car driver ( d. 1983 )

* 1944 – Rolf M. Zinkernagel, Swiss immunologist, Nobel laureate

* 14 December 1962 – Rolf Dahlgrün ( FDP ) succeeds Starke as Minister of Finance.

* 1888 – Rolf de Maré, Swedish art collector and museum director ( d. 1964 )

Rolf Nevanlinna's grandfather Edavard Engelbert Neovius ( 1823 – 88 ), a major general in the Czar's army, taught mathematics in the Hamina Cadet School, Nevanlinnas father Otto Neovius-Nevanlinna ( 1867 – 1927 ) was a prominent mathematics teacher while one of his uncles was a mathematics professor and another a mathematics teacher.

* Rolf Gindorf ( 1939 – )

Chargers placekicker Rolf Benirschke eventually kicked the winning 29-yard field goal after 13: 52 of overtime to help San Diego beat Miami, 41 – 38.

* 1910 – Rolf Liebermann, Swiss composer ( d. 1999 )

* Medicine – Peter C. Doherty, Rolf M. Zinkernagel

Ernest Orlando Lawrence ( August 8, 1901 – August 27, 1958 ) was an American physicist and Nobel Laureate, known for his invention, utilization, and improvement of the cyclotron atom-smasher beginning in 1929, based on his studies of the works of Rolf Widerøe, and his later work in uranium-isotope separation for the Manhattan Project.

* Rolf Dahlgrün ( FDP ) – Minister of Finance

* Rolf Dahlgrün ( FDP ) – Minister of Finance

Rolf Singer ( June 23, 1906 – January 18, 1994 ) was a German-born mycologist and one of the most important taxonomists of gilled mushrooms ( agarics ) in the 20th century.

Country and folk artists such as Tex Morton, Slim Dusty, Rolf Harris, The Bushwackers, John Williamson, and John Schumann of the band Redgum have continued to record and popularise the old bush ballads of Australia through the 20th and into the 21st century – and contemporary artists including Sara Storer and Lee Kernaghan draw heavily on this heritage.

Secondly, and a little further up the hill, is a rather odd modern building on the south side of the road ( about number 138 ): this was the factory for the revolutionary Stylophone handheld organ of the late 1960s / early 1970s – as demonstrated by Rolf Harris.