Background
NE, Yuval Son of Gedalia and Zipora Ne’eman.
NE, Yuval Son of Gedalia and Zipora Ne’eman.
Herzliya High School, Tel-Aviv, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, and London University.
Deputy Director Defence Intelligence Division 1955-1957. Defence Attache, London 1958-1960. Resigned from Israeli Defence Forces active service May 1960.
Took part in six day war June 1967. Scientific Director Israel Atomic Energy Establishment 196163. Research Association California Institute of Technology, Pasadena 1963-1964, Visiting Professor, of Theoretical Physics 1964-1965.
Professor, of Physics and Head of Department TelAviv University 1965-1973. Professor, of Physics and Director Centre for Particle Theory, University of Texas (Austin) since 1968. Poliak Professor, of Theoretical Physics, TelAviv University 1968-1976, Wolfson Professor Extraordinary in Theoretical Physics since 1977.
Vice-President Tel-Aviv University 1965-1966, President 1971-1975. Director Sackler Institute of Advanced Studies, Tel-Aviv University since 1979. Adviser to Head of Mil.
Intelligence 1973-1974. Special Adviser to Israel Defence Ministry 1975-1976. Minister of Science and Development 1982-1984, of Science, Development and Energy since 1990.
Chairman Steering Committee Mediterranean-Dead Sea Conduit 1977-1983. Chairman Israel Space Agency since 1983.
The Eightfold Way (with M. Gell-Mann) 1964, Algebraic Theory of Particle Physics 1967, One Way to Unitary Symmetry, The Past Decade in Particle Theory (with E. C. G. Sudarshan) 1973, Symetries, Jauges et Varietes de Groupes 1979, Group Theoretical Methods in Physics (with L. P. Honvitz) 1980, To Fulfil a Vision 1981. Twentieth Century Physics (Hebrew') 1981, The Particle Hunters (in Hebrew, with Y. Kirsch) 1983, Policy from a Sober Viewpoint 1984, Dynamical Groups (with A. Barut and A. Bohm) 1989. About 250 articles on physics, astrophysics and philosophy of science.
Knesset 1981-1990; Israel Atomic Energy Committee 1966-1984, Israel National Academy, of Sciences since 1966. American Academy Arts and Sciences, Honorary Life member New York Academy, of Sciences since 1973, Foreign Association National Academy, of Sciences.
Married Dvora Rubinstein 1951.