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Yuval Ne'eman is an Israeli physicist and politician. He was born in Tel Aviv , Israel. Active against the British in Palestine (1946–7), he became a captain in the Israeli Defence Force (1947), deputy director of defence intelligence (1955–7), and defence attaché in London (1958–60). In 1962, he proposed (independently from Murray Gell-Mann ) the classification of hadrons through their SU(3) flavour symmetry — today known as the quark model . He was professor of physics at Tel Aviv (1965–73), then at the University of Texas, Austin , and (1979–97) director of the Sackler Institute of Advanced Studies . He founded the Tehiya political party and was a member of the Knesset (1982-92), holding ministerial posts in the areas of science and development. In 1983 he founded the Israeli Space Agency . v t e v t e1
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Yuval Ne'eman ( , 14 May 1925 – 26 April 2006), was an Israeli physicist and politician .He was a minister in the Israeli government in the 1980s and early 1990s."In Remembrance of Yuval Ne'eman" , Teddy Ne'eman (son of Yuval Ne'eman), PhysicaPlus (פיזיקהפלוס), online magazine of the Israel Physical Society , Issue No. 7
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member of the Knesset Yuval Ne'eman ( , 14 May 1925 – 26 April 2006) was an Israeli theoretical physicist , military scientist, and politician . He was a minister in the Israeli government in the 1980s and early 1990s. "In Remembrance of Yuval Ne'eman" , Teddy Ne'eman (son of Yuval Ne'eman), PhysicaPlus (פיזיקהפלוס), online magazine of the Israel Physical Society, Issue No. 7
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member of the Knesset Yuval Ne'eman ( , 14 May 1925 – 26 April 2006) was an Israeli theoretical physicist , military scientist, and politician. He was awarded the Israel Prize in the field of exact sciences (which he returned in 1992 in protest of the award of the Israel Prize to Emile Habibi ), the Albert Einstein Award , the Wigner Medal , and the EMET Prize for Arts, Sciences and Culture.
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
Israeli scientist Yuval Ne'eman ( , 14 May 1925 – 26 April 2006) was an Israeli theoretical physicist , military scientist, and politician. He was awarded the Israel Prize in the field of exact sciences (which he returned in 1992 in protest of the award of the Israel Prize to Emile Habibi ), the Albert Einstein Award , the Wigner Medal , and the EMET Prize for Arts, Sciences and Culture.
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Israeli scientist Yuval Ne'eman ( Hebrew : יובל נאמן ; 14 May 1925 – 26 April 2006) was an Israeli theoretical physicist , military scientist, and politician. He was awarded the Israel Prize in the field of exact sciences (which he returned in 1992 in protest of the award of the Israel Prize to Emile Habibi ), the Albert Einstein Award , the Wigner Medal , and the EMET Prize for Arts, Sciences and Culture.
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israeli physicist and politician
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israeli theoretical physicist
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