1. Yuval Ne'eman was an Israeli theoretical physicist, military scientist, and politician.
20 Facts About Yuval Ne'eman
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Yuval Ne'eman was Minister of Science and Development in the 1980s and early 1990s.
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Yuval Ne'eman was the President of Tel Aviv University from 1971 to 1977.
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Yuval Ne'eman was awarded the Israel Prize in the field of exact sciences, the Albert Einstein Award, the Wigner Medal, and the EMET Prize for Arts, Sciences and Culture.
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Yuval Ne'eman was born in Tel Aviv during the Mandate era, graduated from high school at the age of 15, and studied mechanical engineering at the Technion.
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Between 1958 and 1960 Yuval Ne'eman was IDF Attache in Great Britain, where he studied for a PhD in physics under the supervision of 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics winner Abdus Salam at Imperial College London.
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In 1981, Yuval Ne'eman became a founding member of the World Cultural Council.
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Between 1998 and 2002 Yuval Ne'eman was the head of the Israeli Engineer Association.
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Yuval Ne'eman died at age 80, on 26 April 2006 in the Ichilov Hospital, Tel Aviv, from a stroke.
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Yuval Ne'eman was survived by a wife, Dvora; a son and a daughter; and a sister, Ruth Ben-Yisrael.
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Yuval Ne'eman was the co-director of the Center for Particle Theory at the University of Texas, Austin from 1968 to 1990.
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Yuval Ne'eman was a strong believer in the importance of space research and satellites to Israel's economic future and security, and thus founded the Israel Space Agency in 1983, which he chaired almost until his death.
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Yuval Ne'eman served on the Israel Atomic Energy Commission from 1965 to 1984 and held the position of scientific director in its Soreq facility.
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Yuval Ne'eman was described as "one of the most colorful figures of modern science" and co-authored The Particle Hunters, which was published in English in 1986.
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Yuval Ne'eman was elected to the Knesset in the 1981 elections in which Tehiya won three seats.
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The party joined Begin's coalition about a year after the elections and Yuval Ne'eman was appointed Minister of Science and Development, the role later changed to Minister of Science and Technology.
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Yuval Ne'eman retained his seat in the 1984 elections, but Tehiya were not included in the grand coalition formed by the Alignment and Likud.
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Yuval Ne'eman resigned from the Knesset on 31 January 1990 and was replaced by Gershon Shafat.
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Yuval Ne'eman lost his ministerial position following the 1992 elections and did not return to politics.
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Yuval Ne'eman was awarded with the College de France Medal and the Officer's Cross of the French Order of Merit, the Wigner Medal, Birla Science Award and additional prizes and honorary doctorates from universities in Europe and USA.