Jacob Bekenstein
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Jacob David Bekenstein (born May 1, 1947), in Mexico City, has contributed to the foundation of black hole thermodynamics and to other aspects of the connections between information and gravitation. He is Polak Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and a recipient of the Rothschild Prize.
Pioneering work on physical constant changes
In 1982 Bekenstein was the first person to develop a rigorous framework to generalize the laws of electromagnetism to handle inconstant physical constants. His framework changes single numbers into scalar fields which yields more information. However, this framework for changing constants did not incorporate gravity.
Reference
- Jacob D. Bekenstein, Information in the Holographic Universe. Scientific American, Volume 289, Number 2, August 2003, p. 61.he:יעקב בקנשטיין