# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ted-jacobson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:00:29.055Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ted-jacobson"
name: "Ted Jacobson"
slug: "ted-jacobson"
description: "Theodore A. \"Ted\" Jacobson is an American theoretical physicist. He is known for his work on the connection between gravity and thermodynamics. In particular, in 1995 Jacobson proved that the Einstein field equations describing relativistic gravity can be derived from thermodynamic considerations."
tagline: "American physicist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
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profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1954-11-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             11.48936170212766
  historical:           5.684774666666667
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  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://terpconnect.umd.edu/~jacobson/"
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    title: "Theodore Jacobson"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Jacobson"
    title: "Ted Jacobson"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Jacobson"
    title: "Ted Jacobson"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump