Past Member
Jacob Bekenstein
IBM Einstein Fellow
Affiliation
Natural Sciences
Field of Study
Gravitation theory and astrophysics
Website
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Seeking to improve the modified dynamics (MOND) paradigm so that it can ultimately describe (or summarize) dynamics on the scale of clusters of galaxies as well as it does dynamics on galaxy scale. I am looking into vacuum energy and variable coupling constants as possible contributing elements to MOND; these are, of course, phenomena of interest in themselves.
Dates at IAS
Member
School of Natural Sciences
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Degrees
Princeton University
Ph.D.
1972
Polytechnic Institute of New York
M.Sc.
1969
Polytechnic Institute of New York
B.Sc.
1969
Honors
2005
Israel National Prize
1997
Member, Israel Academy of Sciences
1988
Rotschild Prize (Israel)
1981
Landau Prize for Research in Physics (Israel)
1977
Bergman Prize in Physics (Israel)
Appointments
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1990
Full Professor
Ben Gurion University, Israel
1983
Arnow Professor of Astrophysics
1978
Full Professor