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Jacob Bekenstein

1947 - 2015

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Jacob David Bekenstein (Hebrew: יעקב דוד 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

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jacob Bekenstein is the 407th most popular physicist (up from 421st in 2019), the 90th most popular biography from Mexico (up from 102nd in 2019) and the most popular Mexican Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Jacob Bekenstein ranks 407 out of 851. Before him are Tom Kibble, Paul Drude, Friedrich Ernst Dorn, Samuel Goudsmit, Yoshio Nishina, and Otto Schmidt. After him are Nick Holonyak, Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Edwin Hall, Oskar Klein, Philip Abelson, and Charles H. Bennett.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Jacob Bekenstein ranks 207. Before him are Ben Cross, Greg Lake, Dawoud Rajiha, Don Henley, Porfirio Lobo Sosa, and Ignazio La Russa. After him are Petra Kelly, Muhyiddin Yassin, Antonio de la Cruz, Nobuo Kawakami, David Patterson, and Hou Hsiao-hsien. Among people deceased in 2015, Jacob Bekenstein ranks 111. Before him are Arsen Dedić, Dean Smith, Eldar Ryazanov, Philippe Honoré, Jenő Buzánszky, and Kemal Monteno. After him are Ieng Thirith, Shigeru Mizuki, André Glucksmann, Franzl Lang, Aldo Ciccolini, and John Guillermin.

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In Mexico

Among people born in Mexico, Jacob Bekenstein ranks 90 out of 729. Before him are Jorge Campos (1966), Chimalpopoca (1397), Pedro Infante (1917), Miguel Alemán Valdés (1900), José Sánchez del Río (1913), and Chespirito (1929). After him are Adolfo de la Huerta (1881), Rafael Caro Quintero (1952), Yola Ramírez (1935), Henry Eyring (1901), Javier Aguirre (1958), and Miguel Miramón (1832).

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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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