Neeman, Yuval

Yuval Neeman (May 14, 1925, Tel Aviv - April 26, 2006, Tel Aviv ) is an Israeli military and state leader and physicist scientist.

Yuval Neeman
Minister of Science and Development of Israel July 26, 1982 - September 13, 1984
Head of the government	Menachem Begin (until October 10, 1983) Itzhak Shamir
Successor	Gideon Pat
Israeli Minister of Science and Technology June 11, 1990 - January 21, 1992
Head of the government	Itzhak Shamir
Predecessor	Itzhak Shamir
Successor	Itzhak Shamir
Israeli Minister of Energy and Infrastructure June 11, 1990 - January 21, 1992
Head of the government	Itzhak Shamir
Predecessor	Itzhak Shamir
Successor	Itzhak Shamir
Birth	May 14, 1925 ( 1925-05-14 ) Tel Aviv
Death	April 26, 2006 ( 2006-04-26 ) (80 years) Tel Aviv
Burial place
The consignment	Thia
Education	Technion
Awards	Israel Prize (1969)
Military service
Rank	Colonel
Place of work	Tel Aviv University

Neeman studied at the gymnasium "Herzliya" , from which he graduated with honors at the age of 15 years ^[1] . In 1942 he joined the underground detachments of the Hagan organization. He took part in the Arab-Israeli war of 1947-1949 .

In 1958, Yuval Neeman was sent to the post of military attaché at the Israeli embassy in London . He entered the graduate school of the Imperial College of Science and Technology at the University of London .

In 1961, regardless of Murray, Gell-Mann proposed the classification of hadrons by means of SU (3) aromatic symmetry, called the octal path .

In 1961, Yuval Neeman returned to Israel and worked as director of the laboratory of the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission. He later stood at the head of the Israel Space Agency , he is considered ^{[ who? ]} one of the founders of the space program of Israel.

In 1969, he was awarded the State Prize of Israel , which he subsequently refused and returned to the Ministry of Education and Culture, after one of the later awards, which was of a political rather than meritocratic nature (presumably ^{[by whom? ]} contrary to the statute of the award) . In 1971 he was elected president of Tel Aviv University . Combined the position with the work as the Minister of Science and Technology of Israel (in 1982-1984 and 1990-1992).

In 1992 he signed the “ Warning to Humanity ” ^[2] .