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Yuval Ne'eman
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<p>Yuval Ne'eman was an Israeli <a href="/facts/Theoretical_physics/Cs2Y12rQ">theoretical</a> <a href="/facts/Physicist/cQcgvSIm">physicist</a>, military scientist, and politician. He was <a href="/facts/Ministry_of_Science,_Technology_and_Space/tXXm0qGS">Minister of Science and Development</a> in the 1980s and early 1990s. He was the President of <a href="/facts/Tel_Aviv_University/5MVPPor0">Tel Aviv University</a> from 1971 to 1977. He was awarded the <a href="/facts/Israel_Prize/CAko08CR">Israel Prize</a> in the field of exact sciences (which he returned in 1992 in protest of the award of the Israel Prize to <a href="/facts/Emile_Habibi/q873r5Yk">Emile Habibi</a>), the <a href="/facts/Albert_Einstein_Award/cre88rLH">Albert Einstein Award</a>, the <a href="/facts/Wigner_Medal/uva8pqDL">Wigner Medal</a>, and the <a href="/facts/EMET_Prize/hoKFnP5D">EMET Prize</a> for Arts, Sciences and Culture. </p>