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= Jacob Bekenstein
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Jacob Bekenstein was a prominent theoretical physicist known for his groundbreaking work in the field of black hole thermodynamics and quantum gravity. Born on March 1, 1947, in Jerusalem and passing away on August 16, 2023, Bekenstein is best known for proposing that black holes have entropy and that this entropy is proportional to the area of their event horizon, a concept he introduced in the early 1970s.