Jacob David Bekenstein ( Hebrew : יעקב בקנשטיין ; May 1 , 1947 -- August 16 , 2015 ) was an Israeli-American theoretical physicist who made fundamental contributions to the foundation of black hole thermodynamics and to other aspects of the connections between information and gravitation .
Jacob David Bekenstein ( Hebrew : יעקב בקנשטיין ; May 1 , 1947 -- August 16 , 2015 ) was a Mexican theoretical physicist . He made fundamental contributions to the foundation of black hole thermodynamics and to other aspects of the connections between information and gravitation .