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398 How I discovered SU (3) By Yuval Neeman I arrived in London at the beginning of 1958۔I wanted to study (general relativity) which had attracted me as a student, and found out that the place for that was King's College, with the astrophysicist Bondi۔However this institution was located in a region of high traffic, and I soon realized that it would be quite impractical to work at the embassy in the west of London, and study at a college in the east of the city۔So I settled for Imperial College, which was a five-minute walk from the Embassy۔My choice of a supervisor for my thesis was somewhat incidental۔I consulted the College's prospectus and approached one of the professors whose names appeared there under 'Theoretical Physics'۔I told him about my interest in Einstein's unified field theory, to which he replied that he did not know if anyone was still working on that, but Abdus Salam and his group in the Mathematics Department were working on field theory۔I came to Salam, presenting the only letter of recommendation that I had, which was from Moshe Dayan۔Salam laughed and commented 'What can a General know about scientific abilities۔" Nevertheless he agreed to take me on probation, on the strength of my degree from the Technion- Israel Institute of Technology - and the recommendation letter۔I had missed the first term, and had to absent myself from some lectures in the second term too, when my duties as a defense attaché interfered۔Eventually in May 1960 I resumed my studies with the status of an officer on leave with a one-year scholarship from the Government۔I was captivated by group theory, which I had first met in Salam's course۔I learned group theory from a textbook by A۔B۔Dynkin, translated from Russian۔It was Salam who suggested that I should study Dynkin's work۔He understood that I was interested in classifying the particles and finding their symmetries, when on the basis of my rather scanty knowledge of group theory I began to suggest possible models in this area۔When I first showed him my suggestions, Salam told me that they had already been attempted five or six years previously۔My next proposals, he told me,