Jacob Bekenstein
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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.[1]
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Born | (1947-05-01)May 1, 1947 Mexico City, Mexico |
Died | August 16, 2015(2015-08-16) (aged 68) Helsinki, Finland |
Citizenship | Mexico United States Israel |
Education | Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn Princeton University |
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Fields | Theoretical physics |
Institutions | Hebrew University of Jerusalem Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
Doctoral advisor | John Wheeler |
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