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Yuval Ne'eman

1925 - 2006

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yuval Ne'eman is the 444th most popular physicist (up from 468th in 2019), the 183rd most popular biography from Israel (up from 208th in 2019) and the most popular Israeli Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Yuval Ne'eman ranks 444 out of 851. Before him are Vilhelm Bjerknes, Anatoli Bugorski, Robert J. Van de Graaff, Vladimir Chelomey, Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, and Howard P. Robertson. After him are John Dollond, Douglas Hofstadter, Frank Oppenheimer, Katharine Burr Blodgett, Ferenc Krausz, and Richard C. Tolman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Yuval Ne'eman ranks 163. Before him are Serge Moscovici, Pavel Belyayev, Bob Hastings, Serge Dassault, Paul Wild, and Donald O'Connor. After him are Louison Bobet, John DeLorean, Francisco Álvarez Martínez, Maurice Pialat, Roger Hanin, and Johnny Carson. Among people deceased in 2006, Yuval Ne'eman ranks 129. Before him are Esther Lederberg, Alberto Spencer, Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg, Silva Kaputikyan, Don Thompson, and Malcolm Arnold. After him are Valentín Paniagua, Asima Chatterjee, Igor Sergeyev, Joe Rosenthal, William Auld, and Basil Poledouris.

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In Israel

Among people born in Israel, Yuval Ne'eman ranks 183 out of 466. Before him are Moses ben Jacob Cordovero (1522), John of Patmos (50), Michel Sabbah (1933), Eliahu Inbal (1936), Ahmed Jibril (1938), and Dalia Itzik (1952). After him are Shulamit Aloni (1928), Rehavam Ze'evi (1926), Safra Catz (1961), Eliyahu M. Goldratt (1947), Daliah Lavi (1942), and Uzi Narkiss (1925).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Israel

Among physicists born in Israel, Yuval Ne'eman ranks 1. After him are Yakir Aharonov (1932), David Deutsch (1953), Yoseph Imry (1939), and Nathan Seiberg (1956).

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