What is Jacob Bekenstein?
{{Infobox scientist | name = Jacob Bekenstein | image = Bekenstein100 (cropped).JPG | image_size = 200px | caption = Jacob Bekenstein | birth_date = {{Birth date|1947|5|1}} | birth_place = [[Mexico City]], Mexico | death_date = {{Death date and age|2015|8|16|1947|5|1}} | death_place = [[Helsinki]], Finland | residence = | citizenship = Mexican, American, Israeli | nationality = | field = [[Theoretical physics]] | work_institution = [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]]<br>[[Ben-Gurion University of the Negev]] | alma_mater = [[Princeton University]]<br>[[New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering|Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn]] | doctoral_advisor = [[John Archibald Wheeler|John Wheeler]] | doctoral_students = | known_for = [[Black hole thermodynamics]] | author_abbreviation_bot = | author_abbreviation_zoo = | prizes = Rothschild Prize in Physics <small>(1988)</small><br />[[Israel Prize]] <small>(2005)</small><br /> [[Wolf Prize in Physics]] <small>(2012)</small> | footnotes = }} '''Jacob David Bekenstein''' ([[Hebrew]]: יעקב בקנשטיין; May 1, 1947 – August 16, 2015)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.jspacenews.com/jacob-bekenstein-black-hole-pioneer-hebrew-university-physicist-died/ |title=Jacob Bekenstein, Black Hole Pioneer and Hebrew University Physicist, Has Died |access-date=2015-08-19 |archive-date=2015-08-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150826000421/http://www.jspacenews.com/jacob-bekenstein-black-hole-pioneer-hebrew-university-physicist-died/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> was a [[Mexican]]-born American-Israeli [[theoretical physicist]]. He made fundamental contributions to the foundation of [[black hole]] [[thermodynamics]] and to other aspects of the connections between [[physical information|information]] and [[gravitation]]. He was