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Jacob D. Bekenstein (1.5.1947 - 16.8.2015)
Jacob Bekenstein, Physicist Who Revolutionized Theory of Black Holes, Dies at 68
"The New York Times"
In Memoriam: Jacob Bekenstein (1947.2015) and Black Hole Entropy
"Scientific American"
Jacob Bekenstein: Quantum gravity pioneer
Memorial on Nature
Prof. Jacob Bekenstein, a Black Hole Pioneer and Hebrew University Theoretical Physicist, Has Died
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
"Haaretz"
"Jacob David Bekenstein", Robert M.Wald
"PhysicsToDay"
"Chaos, Quantum Mechanics and Black Holes",
A special public lecture from the frontier of theoretical physics delivered
at the Hebrew University by Prof. Stephen Shenker.(2017)
"Black Holes in the Laboratory",
The Bekenstein Memorial Lectures in Fundamental Physics by William G. Unruh University of British Columbia.(2018)
Jacob D. Bekenstein
Polak Professor of Theoretical Physics,
Racah Institute of Physics,
Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
Edmund J. Safra Campus, Jerusalem, 91904 Israel
Courses
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On my work
"Ha'aretz"
writeup on black hole thermodynamics (Hebrew)
"Excellence
over generations" (movie in Hebrew)
"The
Limits of Information and Black Holes"
Blogs
Nature
Physics
World
MIT
Technology Review
+
Magazine
Popular articles discussing MOND
including my paper #5 below.
D. Shiga, New
Scientist, 29 April 2006, p. 5 and p. 52 (pdf 4.5
Mb)
A. Swarup, Astronomy
Now, Jun. 2006, p. 30 (pdf 4.5 Mb)
M. Chalmers,Physics
World, Jun. 2006 (feature
article)
A. Frank, Discover 27
August 2006), p. 32 (pdf 6.6 Mb) (feature
article)
L.
Krauss, Discover 27 August 2006, p.38
(pdf 1.8 Mb) (Commentary)
Z.
Merali, New Scientist, 26 August 2006
L. Zyga,
Physorg, 14 December 2006.
J. M. Bonnet-Bidaud, Ciel &
Espace, Dec. 2006, p.47 (cover
story 5.8 Mb pdf)
M. Chown, Sky at Night, Sep. 2007, p.40 (cover
story 19 Mb
pdf)
S. Battersby, The Dark Side,
New Scientist, 27 Feb. 2013 (1 Mb pdf)
Selected Publications:
- Modified
Gravity as an Alternative to Dark Matter, Chapter
6 of Particle Dark Matter: Observations,
Models and Searches,
G. Bertone, ed. (Cambridge U. Press, 2010)
pp. 95-114.
- The
Modified Newtonian Dynamics--MOND and its
Implications for New Physics, Contemporary Physics
47, 387 (2006)
- Of
Gravity, Black Holes and Information
(Di Renzo Editore, Rome, 2006
- Black
Holes and Information Theory, Contemporary
Physics 45, 31 (2004).
- Relativistic
Gravitation Theory for the MOND paradigm, Phys. Rev.
D 70, 083509 (2004).
- Information
in the Holographic Universe, Scientific
American 289 #2, 58-65
(2003) (feature
article pdf 190 K); reprinted
in The Frontiers of Physics (special
edition, Scientific American,
Feb. 2006);
again reprinted in
Scientific American Reports: Black Holes
(special issue, Scientific
American, Mar. 2007)
- Black
holes are One-Dimensional (Gravity Foundation second
prize essay, 2001 with A. Mayo), Gen.Rel.Grav. 33,
2095-2099 (2001)
- Buchi
neri, comunicazione, energia
(Di Renzo Editore, Rome, 2001)
- The
Many Faces of Superradiance (with M. Schiffer),
Phys.Rev. D58, 064014 (1998)
- Spectroscopy
of the Quantum Black Hole (with V. F. Mukhanov),
Phys. Lett. B360, 7-12 (1995)
- How
Fast Does Information Leak Out from a Black Hole?,
Phys.Rev.Lett. 70, 3680-3683 (1993)
- Quantum
Limitations on the Storage and Transmission of
Information (with M. Schiffer),
Int. J. Mod. Phys. C1, 355 (1990)
- The Fine Structure Constant: Is
it Really Constant ?, Phys. Rev. D25, 1527
(1982) (pdf)
- Black Holes and Everyday
Physics (Gravity Foundation first prize essay,
1981), Gen. Rel. and Grav 14, 355 (1982)
(pdf)
- Universal Upper Bound on the
Entropy-to-Energy Ratio for Bounded Systems, Phys.
Rev. D23, 287 (1981) (pdf)
- The Energy Cost of Information
Transfer, Phys. Rev. Letters 46, 623 (1981)
(pdf)
- Black Hole Thermodynamics,
Physics Today 33, 24 (1980) (pdf)
- Generalized Second Law of
Thermodynamics in Black-Hole Physics, Phys. Rev. D9,
3292 (1974) (pdf)
- Black Holes and Entropy, Phys.
Rev. D7, 2333 (1973) (pdf)
- Gravitational Radiation Recoil
and Runaway Black Holes, Astrophys. J.183, 657
(1973) (pdf)
- Black Holes and the Second Law,
Lett. Nuovo Cimento 4, 737 (1972) (pdf)
- Transcendence of the Law of
Baryon Number Conservation in Black Hole Physics,
Phys. Rev. Letters 28, 452 (1972)
(pdf)
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