Jacob D. Bekenstein
Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
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Jacob D. Bekenstein (b. May 1, 1947) is the Polak Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
He received his Ph.D. (1972) and M.Sc. (1971) in physics from Princeton University.
Among his distinctions, awards and honors are: member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities (1997), of the World Jewish Academy of Sciences (2003) and of the International Astronomical Union (1979), laureate of the Israel Prize in Physics (2005) and of the Rothschild prize in Physics (1988), outstanding referee of the American Physical Society (2008).
He is noted for his proposal (1972) that black holes have entropy, which was further developed by S. Hawking, for his formulation (1981) of the universal entropy bound, the first of a nowadays wide class of entropy bounds, and for his construction (2004) of TeVeS, the first consistent relativistic gravity theory of the MOND paradigm in extragalactic astrophysics.
Bekenstein has lectured widely within the realm of his research interests, gravitational theory, black hole physics, relativistic magnetohydrodynamics, and physical aspects of information theory. He has served as member of various prize committees, and of organizing and advisory committees for various scientific events.
Scholarpedia articles:
- Bekenstein-Hawking entropy. Scholarpedia, 3(10):7375. (2008).
- Bekenstein bound. Scholarpedia, 3(10):7374. (2008).
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