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Yuval Ne’eman Dies at 80

APR 27, 2006
Physics Today
ScienceNow : Yuval Ne’eman, one of the most colorful figures of modern science, died today at the age of 80. He was best known for the Eightfold Way classification of elementary particles, developed simultaneously with Murray Gell-Mann in the early 1960s, which helped bring order to the confused world of subatomic physics.
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