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Jacob Bekenstein
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Mexican-Israeli physicist
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Jacob Bekenstein (1947–2015) was an Israeli and Mexican theoretical physicist, astronomer, and university teacher. Born in Mexico City, he was educated at Princeton University and New York University Tandon School of Engineering. His doctoral advisor was John Archibald Wheeler. Bekenstein worked in the field of physics and served as a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He was employed by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Bekenstein received several awards, including the Israel Prize, Wolf Prize in Physics, Einstein Prize, and Rothschild Prize. He spoke Spanish, Hebrew, and English. His works include *Kütleçekim Kara Delikler ve Bilgi Üzerine* and *Albert Einstein memorial lectures*. He died in Helsinki and was buried at Har HaMenuchot.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Kütleçekim Kara Delikler ve Bilgi Üzerine
- Albert Einstein memorial lectures
via Open Library + Wikidata
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A power primer.
· 1992 · cited 41,563x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,423x
- A Coefficient of Agreement for Nominal Scales
· 1960 · cited 31,907x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,760x
- Statistical Power Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences
· 2013 · cited 16,898x
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Quotes
- “Black holes set a limitation on the number of species of elementary particles—quarks, leptons, neutrinos—which may exist. And black holes lead to a fundamental limitation on the rate at which information can be transferred for given message energy by any communication system.”
- “The DM halo hypothesis is evidently an attempt to resolve the acceleration discrepancy within orthodox gravitation theory. But in coming to terms with this discrepancy, suspicion fell on Newtonian gravity already early in the game. Zwicky, who had exposed the acceleration discrepancy in clusters of galaxies ..., opined much later that the discrepancy may reflect a failure of conventional physics ...”
- “There is a prescription that works well, MOND, but the reason it works so well is not known. You may say that MOND tells us how the real theory of gravity should look.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Jacob David Bekenstein , ( 1947-05-01 ) May 1, 1947, Mexico City , Mexico
- Died
- August 16, 2015 (2015-08-16) (aged 68), Helsinki , Finland
- Education
- Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn , Princeton University
- Known for
- Bekenstein bound Bekenstein–Hawking formula Black hole thermodynamics No-hair theorem AQUAL Tensor–vector–scalar gravity
- Awards
- Rothschild Prize in Physics (1988) Israel Prize (2005) Racah Lecture (2006) Wolf Prize in Physics (2012) Einstein Prize (APS) (2015)
- Fields
- Theoretical physics
- Institutions
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem , Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
- Doctoral advisor
- John Wheeler
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Encyclopedic overview
Jacob David Bekenstein (Hebrew: יעקב דוד 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.
Early life and education
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