# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jacob-bekenstein
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:40:16.998Z

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name: "Jacob Bekenstein"
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description: "Jacob David Bekenstein 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."
tagline: "Mexican-Israeli physicist"
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birthDate: "1947-05-01"
deathDate: "2015-08-16"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump