Jacob Bekenstein

Jacob Bekenstein
Bekenstein in 2009
Born	(1947-05-01)May 1, 1947 Mexico City, Mexico
Died	August 16, 2015(2015-08-16) (aged 68) Helsinki, Finland
Citizenship	Mexico United States Israel
Education	Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn Princeton University
Known for	Black hole thermodynamics Bekenstein bound No-hair theorem
Awards	Rothschild Prize in Physics (1988) Israel Prize (2005) Wolf Prize in Physics (2012) Einstein Prize (APS) (2015)
Scientific career
Fields	Theoretical physics
Institutions	Hebrew University of Jerusalem Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Doctoral advisor	John Wheeler

Jacob David Bekenstein (Hebrew: יעקב בקנשטיין; May 1, 1947 – August 16, 2015) 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.^[1]