Yuval Ne'eman
Juval Ne'eman (Hebrew יובל נאמן; born May 14, 1925 in Tel Aviv, † April 26, 2006 ) was an Israeli physicist and politician.
Military and political career
Ne'eman joined with 15 of the Haganah and served in the Revolutionary War in 1948 as a battalion commander, " Operations Officer " for Tel Aviv and commander of the Giv'ati Brigade. 1952-1954 he was "Deputy Commander" on the General Staff and as a captain Head of the Planning Division of the Israeli army. He organized the mobilization and reserve system of the Israeli army, and wrote the first draft of its defense doctrine. From 1955 to 1957 he was Deputy Director of the Army Intelligence Service (1956 Director), where he among other things, was involved in the negotiations with the British and French in the Suez Crisis. Subsequently, he was from 1958 to 1960 the Ministry of Defence Attaché in London before he was released on the reserve to pursue a scientific career. Most recently, he held the rank of colonel.
From 1982 to 1992 he was a member of the Knesset for the right Techija Party, which had been founded by him in 1979 as a splinter group of the Likud in protest against Menachem Begin's Camp David negotiations with Egypt (Camp David I). In 1981, she won three seats in the Knesset. As a prize for the participation of his party in the Likud by Begin, he was from 1982 to 1983 Minister of Science, a position he also held from 1990 to 1992. From 1988 to 1992 he was also Minister of Energy and Infrastructure. After his party was excluded twice coalitions in the 1980s, he gave up his seat in the Knesset in 1990. After his time as a minister in 1992, he gave his political career finally on.
In 1983 he founded the Israel Space Agency and was its chairman until 2005. From 1965 to 1984 he was in the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission and scientific director of their Soreq Nuclear Research Center, which is used for civilian research. From 1974 to 1976 he was Chief Scientist of the Israeli Ministry of Defense.
Career as a physicist
Ne'eman completed with 15 high school and studied engineering (mechanical engineering) at the Technion in Haifa, where he graduated in 1945 made after two years, although he had to interrupt his studies several times. He studied in the late 1950s continued in Paris ( at the Military Academy ) and in London at Imperial College, where he earned a degree in physics. During his time as an attaché in London, he received his doctorate in 1960/61, with Abdus Salam with a thesis in which he independently by Murray Gell-Mann proposed in 1962 a classification of hadrons by a SU (3 ) symmetry. This was a forerunner of today's quark model. In the 1980s, he dealt, inter alia, to with the group-theoretical structure of string theory and gravity theory.
He was the founder and from 1965 to 1972 director of the physics department at Tel Aviv University ( TAU). From 1971 to 1975 he was president of the TAU and from 1979 to 1997 director of the " Sackler Institute for Advanced Study ". The center for particle theory at the University of Texas at Austin, he headed from 1968 to 1990 as director.
In 1969 he was awarded the Israel Prize and the Albert Einstein Award and the 2003 EMET Prize.
He was married and had two children. He died in 2006 of a stroke.