Jacob D. Bekenstein

• Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
  
• List of Publications (pdf)
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• Commemorative in Foundations of Physics
  
• Receiving the Israel Prize
  
• Receiving the Wolf Prize
  
• Israel Academy of Sciences

• Graduate Students, present and past

•  77606  Continuum Mechanics (Hebrew 2011)
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• 77303  Analytical Mechanics (Hebrew 2010)
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•  77909 Relativity & Gravitation (Hebrew 2006)
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• 77800 Advanced Quantum Theory A (English 2013)

•  77801 Advanced Quantum Theory B (Hebrew 2013)
  
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                                                 Selected Publications:

1. 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.
   
2. The Modified Newtonian Dynamics--MOND and its Implications for New Physics, Contemporary Physics 47, 387 (2006)
3. Of Gravity, Black Holes and Information (Di Renzo Editore, Rome, 2006
4. Black Holes and Information Theory, Contemporary Physics  45, 31 (2004).
   
5. Relativistic Gravitation Theory for the MOND paradigm, Phys. Rev. D 70, 083509 (2004).
6. 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)
7. Black holes are One-Dimensional (Gravity Foundation second prize essay, 2001 with A. Mayo), Gen.Rel.Grav. 33,  2095-2099 (2001)
8. Buchi neri, comunicazione, energia  (Di Renzo Editore, Rome, 2001)
9. The Many Faces of Superradiance (with M. Schiffer), Phys.Rev. D58, 064014 (1998)
   
10. Spectroscopy of the Quantum Black Hole (with V. F. Mukhanov), Phys. Lett. B360, 7-12 (1995) 
    
11. How Fast Does Information Leak Out from a Black Hole?, Phys.Rev.Lett. 70, 3680-3683 (1993) 
12. Quantum Limitations on the Storage and Transmission of Information (with M. Schiffer),
    Int. J. Mod. Phys. C1, 355 (1990)
13. The Fine Structure Constant: Is it Really Constant ?, Phys. Rev. D25, 1527 (1982)  (pdf)
14. Black Holes and Everyday Physics (Gravity Foundation first prize essay, 1981), Gen. Rel. and Grav 14, 355 (1982)  (pdf)
15. Universal Upper Bound on the Entropy-to-Energy Ratio for Bounded Systems, Phys. Rev. D23, 287  (1981)  (pdf)
16. The Energy Cost of Information Transfer, Phys. Rev. Letters 46, 623 (1981)  (pdf)
17. Black Hole Thermodynamics, Physics Today 33, 24 (1980) (pdf)
    
18. Generalized Second Law of Thermodynamics in Black-Hole Physics, Phys. Rev. D9, 3292 (1974) (pdf)
    
19. Black Holes and Entropy, Phys. Rev. D7, 2333 (1973) (pdf)
20. Gravitational Radiation Recoil and Runaway Black Holes, Astrophys. J.183, 657 (1973) (pdf)
21. Black Holes and the Second Law, Lett. Nuovo Cimento 4, 737 (1972) (pdf)
22. Transcendence of the Law of Baryon Number Conservation in Black Hole Physics, Phys. Rev. Letters 28, 452 (1972) (pdf)