Jacob Bekenstein

Jacob David Bekenstein (Hebrew יעקב בקנשטיין; born May 1, 1947 in Mexico City) is an Israeli physicist.

Bekenstein studied at the Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn, where in 1969 he earned a Master of Science. He then moved to Princeton University, where he earned his doctorate at John Archibald Wheeler in 1972.

From 1976 to 1990 he taught at the Ben- Gurion University in Be'er Sheva. Since 1990 he is professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he has been since 1993 the Michael Polak - Chair of Theoretical Physics. He is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and recipient of the Rothschild Prize. He was awarded the Israel Prize for Physics in 2005. In 2012 he was awarded the Wolf Prize in Physics.

Bekenstein is one of the founders of thermodynamics of black holes and has made important contributions to the connection between information and gravitation. The Bekenstein - limit - the maximum amount of information in a ball - is named after him, and he formulated in 2004, the tensor - vector - scalar theory of gravity, one on the general theory of relativity alternative description of gravitational processes in cosmology.

Bekenstein is married and has three children. In addition to the Israeli he also owns the U.S. citizenship.

Publications

JD Bekenstein: Nonexistence of baryon number of static black holes. In: Physical Review D. Volume 5, 1972, pp. 2403-2412 ( abstract)
JD Bekenstein: Black holes and entropy. In: Physical Review D. Volume 7, 1973, p 2333-2346 ( abstract)
JD Bekenstein: Generalized second law of thermodynamics in black hole physics. In: Physical Review D. Volume 9, 1974, p 3292-3300 ( abstract)
JD Bekenstein: Statistical black hole thermodynamics. In: Physical Review D. Volume 12, 1975, p 3077-3085 ( abstract)
JD Bekenstein: Black -hole thermodynamics. In: Physics Today. January 1980, pp. 24-31.
JD Bekenstein: Energy cost of information transfer. In: Physical Review Letters. Volume 46, 1981, p 623-626 ( abstract)
JD Bekenstein: Universal upper bound to entropy -to-energy ratio for bounded systems. In: Physical Review D. Volume 23, 1981, p 287-298 ( abstract)
JD Bekenstein: Black holes and everyday physics. In: General Relativity and Gravitation. Volume 14, No. 4, 1982, p 355-359 (Abstract)
JD Bekenstein: Specific entropy and the sign of the energy. In: Physical Review D. Volume 26, No. 4, 1982, pp. 950-953 (Abstract)
JD Bekenstein: Entropy bounds and the second law for black holes. In: Physical Review D. Volume 27, No. 10, 1983, pp. 2262-2270 ( abstract)
JD Bekenstein and M. Milgrom: Does the missing mass problem- signal the breakdown of Newtonian gravity? In: Astrophysical Journal. Volume 286, 1984, pp. 7-14 (Abstract)
JD Bekenstein: Communication and energy. In: Physical Review A. Volume 37, No. 9, 1988, pp. 3437-3449 ( abstract)
JD Bekenstein and M. Schiffer: Quantum Limitations on the Storage and Transmission of Information. In: International Journal of Modern Physics. Volume 1, 1990, pp. 355-422 ( preprint )
JD Bekenstein: Information in the Holographic Universe. In: Scientific American. Vol 289, No. 2, August 2003, p 61
JD Bekenstein: Relativistic gravitation theory for the MOND paradigm. In: Physical Review D. tape 70, 2004 083 509, Erratum in: Physical Review D. Volume 71, 2005 069 901 ( Preprint )
JD Bekenstein: Of Gravity, Black Holes and Information. Di Renzo Editore, Roma, 2006, ISBN 88-8323-161-9

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