In black hole thermodynamics, Jacob Bekenstein (1947-) is a Mexican-born Jewish physicist noted for his 1971 conception of black hole entropy, conceived in response to American theoretical physicist John Wheeler’s concern that black holes seem to flout the second law, by seemingly concealing actions associated with entropy increase.
Education
Bekenstein completed his BS (1969) and MS (1969) at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn and a second MS (1971) and PHD in 1972, with a thesis on “Baryon Number, Entropy, and Black Hole Physics”, at Princeton University. Since 1993, he has been the chair of the theoretical physics department at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. [1]
References
1. Bekenstein, Jacob. (1972). “Baryon Number, Entropy, and Black Hole Physics”, PhD thesis, Princeton.
Further reading
● Author. (2003). Special Issue of Invited Papers Dedicated to Jacob Bekenstein: Marking the 30th Anniversary of Black Hole Thermodynamics. Publisher.
● Bekenstein, Jacob. (2006). On Gravity, Black holes, and Information. Publisher.
External links
● Jacob Bekenstein – Wikipedia.
● Jacob Bekenstein (faculty) – Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
