Jacob Bekenstein, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jacob Bekenstein

Mexican-Israeli physicist

Date of Birth: 01-May-1947

Place of Birth: Mexico City, Mexico

Date of Death: 16-Aug-2015

Profession: astronomer, university teacher, theoretical physicist

Nationality: Mexico, Israel

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Jacob David Bekenstein (Hebrew: ???? ????????; May 1, 1947 – August 16, 2015) was a Mexican-born Israeli-American theoretical physicist who made fundamental contributions to the foundation of black hole thermodynamics and to other aspects of the connections between information and gravitation.