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Yuval Ne'eman
Israeli theoretical physicist, military scientist
1925 – 2006aged 80
A theoretical physicist who co-developed the Eightfold Way, the classification scheme for subatomic particles that helped predict the existence of the omega-minus baryon and laid groundwork for the quark model. Alongside his scientific career he served as Israel's Minister of Science and as president of Tel Aviv University; he returned his Israel Prize in 1992 in protest of its award to Emile Habibi.