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Yuval Ne'eman

1925-05-14 – 2006-04-26

Portrait of Yuval Ne'eman
פרופסור לפיזיקה יובל נאמןCredit: קובי קלמנוביץ

Life & Legacy

Yuval Ne'eman (Hebrew: יובל נאמן‎; 14 May 1925 – 26 April 2006) was an Israeli theoretical physicist, military scientist, and politician. He was Minister of Science and Development in the 1980s and early 1990s. He was the President of Tel Aviv University from 1971 to 1977. 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.

Occupation & Career

physicist, politician, pedagogue, university teacher, nuclear physicist, military officer

Education

Technion – Israel Institute of Technology; Imperial College London; Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium

Accomplishments, Inventions & Publications

Israel Prize; Wigner Medal; Albert Einstein Award; Marcel Grossmann Award; Fellow of the American Physical Society; The EMET Prize for Art, Science and Culture; Rothschild Prize

Legacy Highlights

Honors & Awards

Albert Einstein Award · Fellow of the American Physical Society · Israel Prize · Marcel Grossmann Award · Rothschild Prize · The EMET Prize for Art, Science and Culture · Wigner Medal

Employer

Tel Aviv University

Organizations & Memberships

American Academy of Arts and Sciences · Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities · National Academy of Sciences

Education & Institutions

Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium · Imperial College London · Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

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Sources & Provenance

  1. Wikidata population candidate Q471965 — wikidata View source

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