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Jacob David Bekenstein (Hebrew: יעקב בקנשטיין; May 1, 1947 – August 16, 2015) was a Mexican-born American-Israeli theoretical physicist who made fundamental contributions to the foundation of black hole thermodynamics and to other aspects of the connections between information and gravitation.
Articles 1–20. Polak Professor of Theoretical Physics, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Cited by 33,016 - gravitation theory - quantum information - quantum field...
Aug 21, 2015 · Jacob Bekenstein, a physicist who prevailed in an argument with Stephen Hawking that revolutionized the study of black holes, and indeed the nature of space-time itself, died on Sunday in...
A tribute to Jacob Bekenstein, the father of black hole thermodynamics, who passed away in 2015. Learn about his insights, discoveries and debates that shaped modern physics and quantum gravity.
- Jonathan Oppenheim
- 2015
Oct 1, 2015 · Jacob Bekenstein (pictured), the father of black hole thermodynamics, passed away in August. His insight, that black holes should have an entropy proportional to their area and a...
- Jonathan Oppenheim
- j.oppenheim@ucl.ac.uk
- 2015
Dec 1, 2015 · Jacob David Bekenstein died of a heart attack on 16 August 2015 in Helsinki, Finland, where he was visiting to present a seminar. He had made major contributions to many areas of physics, including a proof of the nonexistence of scalar “hair” on a black hole, bounds on entropy and information, and a proposal for a modified theory ...
Dec 23, 2019 · Jacob Bekenstein's pioneering contributions to the foundations of Gravity cover a broad range of scales, from Black Holes to the entire Universe. He is well known as the father of Black Hole Thermodynamics and the inventor of the TeVeS modified gravity theory.
