Jacob David Bekenstein (Hebrew: יעקב בקנשטיין; May 1, 1947 – August 16, 2015) was a Mexican-born American-Israeli theoretical physicist who made fundamental...

In physics, the Bekenstein bound (named after Jacob Bekenstein) is an upper limit on the thermodynamic entropy S, or Shannon entropy H, that can be contained...

Bekenstein is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Jacob Bekenstein (1947–2015), Mexican-born Israeli-American physicist Joshua Bekenstein...

"energy". In his 2003 article published in Scientific American magazine, Jacob Bekenstein speculatively summarized a current trend started by John Archibald...

1972, Jacob Bekenstein conjectured that black holes should have an entropy, where by the same year, he proposed no-hair theorems. In 1973 Bekenstein suggested...

was the origin of the name. In a later interview, Wheeler said that Jacob Bekenstein coined this phrase. Richard Feynman objected to the phrase that seemed...

[citation needed] In 1972, Jacob Bekenstein developed a theory and reported that the black holes should have an entropy. Bekenstein's theory and report came...

gases, the entropy scales with the volume. In the 1970s, the physicist Jacob Bekenstein suggested that the entropy of a black hole is instead proportional...

hypothesis of MOND (dubbed AQUAL) was constructed in 1984 by Milgrom and Jacob Bekenstein. AQUAL generates MONDian behavior by modifying the gravitational term...

drawing an analogy with thermodynamics. To Hawking's irritation, Jacob Bekenstein, a graduate student of John Wheeler, went further—and ultimately correctly—to...