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Jacob Bekenstein
May 1, 1947 – August 16, 2015
Mexican-Israeli physicist (1947–2015)
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Jacob David Bekenstein 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.
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- Birthday · May 1
- Anniversary · August 16
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