Jacob Bekenstein

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

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Other websites

 Bekenstein's papers list at ArXiv with links to the full papers
 Israel Prize Official Site - CV of Jacob Bekenstein 

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