Biography:Yuval Ne'eman
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| Yuval Ne'eman | |
| Born | 14 May 1925 Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine |
| Died | 26 April 2006 Tel Aviv, Israel
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| Known for | Eightfold way; hadron classification; SU(3) flavor symmetry |
| Awards | Israel Prize (1969); Wigner Medal (1982) |
Yuval Ne'eman (14 May 1925 - 26 April 2006) was an Israeli theoretical physicist who independently developed the SU(3) classification of hadrons known as the eightfold way.
Quantum context
The eightfold way organized strongly interacting particles by symmetry patterns before the quark model and quantum chromodynamics gave a deeper explanation. Ne'eman's work helped connect observed hadron multiplets with internal quantum numbers.
In the Quantum Collection he is linked from Physics:Quantum chromodynamics because QCD inherited and explained much of the symmetry structure first seen in hadron spectroscopy.
Linked Quantum Collection pages
- Physics:Quantum chromodynamics
- Physics:Quantum hadron
- Physics:Quantum quark
- Physics:Quantum Standard Model
References
- Ne'eman, Yuval (1964). The Eightfold Way. W. A. Benjamin.
- "Yuval Ne'eman". MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive. https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Neeman/.
Author: Harold Foppele
Source attribution: Biography:Yuval Ne'eman