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...

of the entropy carried by the object that was swallowed. In 1972, Jacob Bekenstein conjectured that black holes should have an entropy proportional to...

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

MOND. A minority of astrophysicists continue to work on the theory. Jacob Bekenstein developed a relativistic generalization of MOND in 2004, TeVeS, which...

[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...

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...

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...

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