Yuval Ne'eman

Yuval Ne'eman
יובל נאמן
Ministerial roles
1982–1984Minister of Science & Development
1990–1992Minister of Science & Technology
1990–1992Minister of Energy & Infrastructure
Faction represented in the Knesset
1981–1992Tehiya
Personal details
Born(1925-05-14)14 May 1925
Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine
Died26 April 2006(2006-04-26) (aged 80)
Tel Aviv, Israel
Alma materTechnion – Israel Institute of Technology

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.[1] 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.

  1. ^ "In Remembrance of Yuval Ne'eman" Archived October 7, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, Teddy Ne'eman (son of Yuval Ne'eman), PhysicaPlus (פיזיקהפלוס), online magazine of the Israel Physical Society, Issue No. 7

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