Jacob Bekenstein

Jacob Bekenstein
Jacob Bekenstein
יעקב בקנשטיין
	Bekenstein in 2009
Born	May 1, 1947; Mexico City, Mexico
Died	August 16, 2015 (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);
	Scientific career
Fields	Theoretical physics
Institutions	Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Doctoral advisor	John Wheeler

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.