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Jacob Bekenstein

1947 - 2015

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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 contributions to the foundation of black hole thermodynamics and to other aspects of the connections between information and gravitation. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacob Bekenstein has received more than 293,521 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Jacob Bekenstein is the 420th most popular physicist (down from 394th in 2019), the 102nd most popular biography from Mexico (down from 97th in 2019) and the most popular Mexican Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Jacob Bekenstein ranks 420 out of 851. Before him are Robert Serber, Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, Evelyn Fox Keller, Yulii Khariton, Arpad Elo, and Leonard Susskind. After him are Louis Paul Cailletet, Johanna Budwig, Federico Faggin, Saul Perlmutter, Ludvig Lorenz, and Johann Andreas Segner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Jacob Bekenstein ranks 201. Before him are Jerry Rawlings, Riyoko Ikeda, Karol Dobiaš, Laurie Anderson, Eliyahu M. Goldratt, and James Cosmo. After him are Nick Castle, Bryan Brown, Mesut Yılmaz, Mitch Mitchell, Harry Reems, and Meiko Kaji. Among people deceased in 2015, Jacob Bekenstein ranks 121. Before him are Wayne Dyer, Aldo Ciccolini, Joshua Fishman, Magali Noël, Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs, and Ignacio Zoco. After him are Roger Hanin, Klaus Roth, Kenzo Ohashi, Natalie Cole, Diana Douglas, and Anne Meara.

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In Mexico

Among people born in Mexico, Jacob Bekenstein ranks 102 out of 729. Before him are El Santo (1917), Miguel Alemán Valdés (1900), Rosie Reyes (1939), Marcial Maciel (1920), Ramon Novarro (1899), and Agustín Lara (1897). After him are Miguel Miramón (1832), Mariano Arista (1802), Joaquin Murrieta (1829), Rafael Caro Quintero (1952), Anastasio Bustamante (1780), and Jorge Negrete (1910).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Mexico

Among physicists born in Mexico, Jacob Bekenstein ranks 1. After him are Miguel Alcubierre (1964), and Carlos Frenk (1951).

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