Who is the late Israeli scientist turned politician who has independently made a Nobel prize winning discovery (the other scientist was the one to receive the prize)?

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Yuval Ne'eman. He was an Israeli soldier, physicist and politician, serving as a Minister during the 1980s and early 1990s. One of his greatest achievements in physics was his discovery (in 1962, independently from Murray Gell-Mann) of the classification of hadrons through their SU(3) flavour symmetry—today known as the quark model. A Nobel Prize for this discovery was given to Murray Gell-Mann but not to Prof. Ne'eman, a fact which left him with much frustration in years to come. Nevertheless, Ne'eman made other important contributions in his scientific career to particle physics, astrophysics, cosmology and the philosophy of science. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuval_Neeman May 30 08, 1:29 PM