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Jacob David Bekenstein (Hebrew: יעקב בקנשטיין; May 1, 1947 –
August 16, 2015) was a Mexican-born American-Israeli
theoretical physicist who made fundamental...
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entropy carried by the
object that was swallowed. In 1972,
Jacob Bekenstein conjectured that
black holes should have an
entropy proportional to the...
- 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...
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Joshua Bekenstein is an
American businessman and co-chairman of Bain Capital.
Bekenstein grew up in a
Jewish family in New York City.
Bekenstein graduated...
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Bekenstein is a surname.
Notable people with the
surname include:
Jacob Bekenstein (1947–2015), Mexican-born Israeli-American
physicist Joshua Bekenstein...
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energy from the
black hole. Due to
Bekenstein's contribution to
black hole entropy, it is also
known as
Bekenstein–Hawking radiation.
Hawking radiation...
- AdS/CFT correspondence. The
holographic principle was
inspired by the
Bekenstein bound of
black hole thermodynamics,
which conjectures that the maximum...
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physicist Stephen Hawking,
Bekenstein's work
yielded a
precise formula for the
entropy of a
black hole. The
Bekenstein–Hawking
formula expresses the...
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drawing an
analogy with thermodynamics. To Hawking's irritation,
Jacob Bekenstein, a
graduate student of John Wheeler, went further—and
ultimately correctly—to...
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origin of the name. In a
later interview,
Wheeler said that
Jacob Bekenstein coined this phrase.
Richard Feynman objected to the
phrase that seemed...
