Jacob Bekenstein

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academic human physicist theoretical physicist

Jacob Bekenstein was an Israeli-American theoretical physicist best known for pioneering the concept of black hole entropy and contributing fundamentally to black hole thermodynamics.

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Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	academic → human → physicist → theoretical physicist →
academicDegree	PhD in physics →
awardReceived	American Physical Society Einstein Prize → Israel Prize in physics → Wolf Prize in Physics →
countryOfBirth	Mexico →
countryOfCitizenship	Israel → United States of America →
countryOfDeath	Finland →
dateOfBirth	1947-05-01 →
dateOfDeath	2015-08-16 →
doctoralAdvisor	John Archibald Wheeler →
educatedAt	Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn → Princeton University →
employer	Ben-Gurion University of the Negev → Hebrew University of Jerusalem →
ethnicGroup	Jewish people →
familyName	Bekenstein →
fieldOfWork	black hole physics → general relativity → quantum gravity → theoretical physics → thermodynamics →
givenName	Jacob →
languageSpoken	English → Hebrew → Spanish →
memberOf	American Physical Society → Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities →
notableFor	Bekenstein bound → Bekenstein–Hawking entropy → black hole entropy → black hole thermodynamics → holographic principle (early ideas) →
notableIdea	black hole entropy proportional to event horizon area → generalized second law of thermodynamics for black holes → upper bound on entropy-to-energy ratio (Bekenstein bound) →
placeOfBirth	Mexico City →
placeOfDeath	Helsinki →
positionHeld	Polak Professor of Theoretical Physics at Hebrew University of Jerusalem → professor of theoretical physics →
religion	Judaism →
sexOrGender	male →

Referenced by (6)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Bekenstein bound → Bekenstein–Hawking entropy →	namedAfter
Jacob Bekenstein ("Bekenstein") →	familyName
Bekenstein–Hawking entropy →	introducedBy
Bekenstein bound →	proposedBy
John Archibald Wheeler →	student