Tullio Regge

<h2 id="biography">Biography</h2>
Regge obtained the <a href="/facts/Laurea/oFzGnKDH">laurea</a> in <a href="/facts/Physics/a7aH2y08">physics</a> from the <a href="/facts/University_of_Turin/tGp1qqGC">University of Turin</a> in 1952 under the direction of Mario Verde and <a href="/facts/Gleb_Wataghin/QCqRjNUA">Gleb Wataghin</a>, and a <a href="/facts/PhD/paJumdN8">PhD</a> in physics from the <a href="/facts/University_of_Rochester/RT7TWLzd">University of Rochester</a> in 1957 under the direction of <a href="/facts/Robert_Marshak/XDnBsL4b">Robert Marshak</a>. From 1958 to 1959 Regge held a post at the <a href="/facts/Max_Planck_Institute_for_Physics/JFztN4EX">Max Planck Institute for Physics</a> where he worked with Werner Heisenberg. In 1961 he was appointed to the chair of Relativity at the University of Turin. He also held an appointment at the <a href="/facts/Institute_for_Advanced_Study/jQQCURKt">Institute for Advanced Study</a> from 1965 to 1979. He was an emeritus professor at the <a href="/facts/Polytechnic_University_of_Turin/LY1xeWFS">Polytechnic University of Turin</a> while contributing work at <a href="/facts/CERN/y1gwRchm">CERN</a> as a visiting scientist. Regge died on 23 October 2014.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2">2</a> He was married to Rosanna Cester, physicist, by whom he had three children: Daniele, Marta and Anna.
In 1959, Regge discovered a mathematical property of potential scattering in the <a href="/facts/Schr%25C3%25B6dinger_equation/3csgSIWF">Schrödinger equation</a>—that the scattering amplitude can be thought of as an analytic function of the angular momentum, and that the position of the poles determines power-law growth rates of the amplitude in the purely mathematical region of large values of the cosine of the scattering angle (i.e. 
 
 
 
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In the early 1960s, Regge introduced <a href="/facts/Regge_calculus/H6b98eMV">Regge calculus</a>, a <a href="/facts/Simplex/0FCfNRN8">simplicial</a> formulation of <a href="/facts/General_relativity/jVsoIg8X">general relativity</a>. Regge calculus was the first discrete gauge theory suitable for numerical simulation, and an early relative of <a href="/facts/Lattice_gauge_theory/90xxuLpx">lattice gauge theory</a>. In 1968 he and G. Ponzano developed a quantum version of Regge calculus in three space-time dimensions now known as the Ponzano-Regge model.[9] This was the first of a whole series of state sum models for <a href="/facts/Quantum_gravity/t7whBMNE">quantum gravity</a> known as <a href="/facts/Spin_foam/Lau32tx6">spin foam</a> models. In mathematics, the model also developed into the Turaev-Viro model, an example of a <a href="/facts/Quantum_invariant/kdERXpeG">quantum invariant</a>.
In the mid-1960s he was approached by <a href="/facts/Radical_period/T6jx1fPt">Radical period</a> furniture manufacturer <a href="/facts/Gufram/VrNny6kX">Gufram</a>, for whom he "transformed a mathematical quartic function into a volume with intentionally ergonomic characteristics" to create the design for his 1968 Detecma seat.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9">9</a>
Married to the physicist Rosanna Cester, whom he met in the USA in 1954, the couple had three children, Daniele, Marta and Anna.
He died at the San Luigi hospital in <a href="/facts/Orbassano/f8KyMloV">Orbassano</a> on 23 October 2014 at the age of 83 due to complications from <a href="/facts/Pneumonia/Jw0KquTA">pneumonia</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10">10</a> The civil funeral rite took place in the Farewell Hall of the Monumental Cemetery of Turin, where the body was cremated.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11">11</a>
Along with <a href="/facts/Piero_Angela/9l9CFaj7">Piero Angela</a>, in 1990 he co-founded the <a href="/facts/CICAP/2LKkkLkP">CICAP</a>, covering the role of scientific senior consultant in place of <a href="/facts/Edoardo_Amaldi/34Pgr4UD">Edoardo Amaldi</a>.
According to his daughter Anna, Tullio Regge spoke seven languages: <a href="/facts/English_language/tpkxGt7b">English</a>, <a href="/facts/German_language/oWaQIDA8">German</a>, <a href="/facts/French_language/qe1DnaQh">French</a>, <a href="/facts/Spanish_language/95BgYNfv">Spanish</a>, <a href="/facts/Russian_language/ETXrTgHV">Russian</a> and <a href="/facts/Hebrew_language/hqKCSy9d">Hebrew</a> because he would like to read the Bible in its original language, while discussing with the <a href="/facts/Jehovah_Witnesses/MCSKHs8S">Jehovah Witnesses</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12">12</a>
He is considered to be the most influential Italian physicist of the 20th century, after <a href="/facts/Enrico_Fermi/cmYcY15H">Enrico Fermi</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13">13</a>

<h2 id="thought">Thought</h2>
He had shared the hypothesis (without affirming it) that "the laws of nature that we discover, or believe we discover, are actually an 'emergent property' of the Universe, that is, they do not exist from the beginning as objective rules that are progressively revealed by us, but instead derive from a self-organizing <a href="/facts/Chaos_theory/LTC17vsF">Chaos</a>."<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:14" href="#fn:14">14</a>

<h2 id="awards-and-honours">Awards and honours</h2>
He received the <a href="/facts/Dannie_Heineman_Prize_for_Mathematical_Physics/0jLT9pzz">Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics</a> in 1964, the <a href="/facts/Como/d5QHB9vT">Città di Como</a> prize in 1968, the <a href="/facts/Albert_Einstein_Award/cre88rLH">Albert Einstein Award</a> in 1979,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:15" href="#fn:15">15</a> and the Cecil Powell Medal in 1987.
Regge was elected to the <a href="/facts/American_Philosophical_Society/auqTbV2C">American Philosophical Society</a> in 1982.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:16" href="#fn:16">16</a>
In 1989, Regge was elected to the <a href="/facts/European_Parliament/H9WLUd1r">European Parliament</a> as a candidate of the <a href="/facts/Italian_Communist_Party/Rm0jYQ8W">Italian Communist Party</a> and served until 1994. Regge served as president of the Turin section of the Association for Research in Handicap Prevention (AIRH).
He was awarded the <a href="/facts/Dirac_Medal_(ICTP)/B4IyJcUf">Dirac Medal</a> in 1996,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:17" href="#fn:17">17</a> the Marcel Grossmann Award in 1997,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:18" href="#fn:18">18</a> and the Pomeranchuk Prize in 2001.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:19" href="#fn:19">19</a> The asteroid <a href="/facts/3778_Regge/sYFCyGVB">3778 Regge</a> has been named after him.
<a href="/facts/Regge_theory/zR8Vr2s3">Regge theory</a>, a theory of strong interaction phenomenology at high energies, and <a href="/facts/Regge_calculus/H6b98eMV">Regge calculus</a> are named after him.

<h2 id="selected-works">Selected works</h2>
<ul><li>Lettera ai giovani sulla scienza, Rizzoli, 2004</li>
<li>Spazio, tempo e universo. Passato, presente e futuro della teoria della relatività, with Giulio Peruzzi, UTET Libreria, 2003</li>
<li>L'universo senza fine. Breve storia del Tutto: passato e futuro del cosmo, <a href="/facts/Milan/0xrtbPdt">Milan</a>, <a href="/facts/Mondadori/rjrPPVIb">Mondadori</a>, 1999</li>
<li>Non abbiate paura. Racconti di fantascienza, <a href="/facts/La_Stampa/1aUor1v1">La Stampa</a>, 1999</li>
<li>Infinito, Mondadori, 1996</li>
<li>Gli eredi di Prometeo. L'energia nel futuro, La Stampa, 1993</li>
<li>Le meraviglie del reale, La Stampa, 1987</li>
<li>Dialogo, with <a href="/facts/Primo_Levi/dIzLpHvz">Primo Levi</a>, <a href="/facts/Giulio_Einaudi_Editore/rjrPPVIb">Einaudi</a>, 1987</li>
<li>Cronache Dell'Universo, Boringhieri, 1981</li></ul>
Main works;;;
<ul><li>T. Regge, J.A. Wheeler, ”Stability of a Schwarzschild Singularity“, Physical Review, 108 (4) (1957) pp. 1063–1069.</li>
<li>T. Regge, ”Introduction to complex orbital momenta“, Il Nuovo Cimento, Nuova Serie, 14 (5) (1959) pp. 951–976.</li>
<li>T. Regge, ”General relativity without coordinates“, Il Nuovo Cimento, Nuova Serie, 19 (3) (1961) pp. 558–571.</li>
<li>A. Bottino, A.M. Longoni, T. Regge, ”Potential Scattering for Complex Energy and Angular Momentum“, Il Nuovo Cimento, 23 (6) (1962) pp. 954–1004.</li></ul>

<h2 id="sources">Sources</h2>
<ul><li>Leonardo Castellani, Anna Ceresole, Riccardo D'Auria, Pietro Frè (Edited by), Tullio Regge: An Eclectic Genius. From Quantum Gravity to Computer Play, World Scientific, Singapore, 2020.</li>
<li>Pietro Frè (3 September 2016). <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220121044007/https://www.amphilsoc.org/sites/default/files/2017-07/attachments/Regge.pdf">"Biographic Memories"</a> (PDF). <a href="/facts/Proceedings_of_the_American_Philosophical_Society/owmDdk4f">Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society</a>. 160 (3). Archived from <a href="https://www.amphilsoc.org/sites/default/files/2017-07/attachments/Regge.pdf">the original</a> (PDF) on 21 January 2022.</li></ul>
<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>

Wikiquote has quotations related to Tullio Regge.

<ul><li><a href="https://mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=8683">Tullio Regge</a> at the <a href="/facts/Mathematics_Genealogy_Project/J7AFo1Do">Mathematics Genealogy Project</a></li>
<li><a href="https://inspirehep.net/author/profile/T.Regge.1">Tullio Regge</a> on <a href="/facts/INSPIRE-HEP/CDEYl9E1">INSPIRE-HEP</a> </li>
<li>(in Italian) <a href="http://www.fondazionebassetti.org/0due/docs/biotech/regge-precauzione.htm">L'utopia del progresso a "rischio zero"</a>, articolo di Tullio Regge su "La Repubblica" (2001)</li>
<li>(in Italian) <a href="http://www.memoro.org/it/Intervista-Rita-Levi-Montalcini-e-Tullio-Regge_2343.html">L'imperdibile intervista a Tullio Regge e Rita Levi-Montalcini</a>, da <a href="http://www.memoro.org">Memoro - la Banca della Memoria</a></li>
<li>(in Italian) <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110722045056/http://www.preminattacopernico.it/2007_regge.php?l=it">Premi Guilio Natta e Nicolò Copernico: Tullio Regge</a>, biographical sketch of prize committee member.</li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1">Piero Bianucci (24 October 2014). "Addio a Tullio Regge, genio della fisica". lastampa.it. p. 18. Retrieved 25 October 2014. <a href="http://www.lastampa.it/2014/10/24/cronaca/addio-a-tullio-regge-genio-della-fisica-HHm1SM7apvMxeoPy2XsB1H/pagina.html" target="_blank">http://www.lastampa.it/2014/10/24/cronaca/addio-a-tullio-regge-genio-della-fisica-HHm1SM7apvMxeoPy2XsB1H/pagina.html</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:2">D'Auria, Riccardo (January 2015). "Faces and places: Tullio Regge 1931-2014" (PDF). CERN Courier. 55 (1): 39–40.[permanent dead link] <a href="https://cds.cern.ch/record/1983144/files/CERN%20Courier.pdf?version=1" target="_blank">https://cds.cern.ch/record/1983144/files/CERN%20Courier.pdf?version=1</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:3">Tullio Regge, "Introduction to complex angular momentum," Il Nuovo Cimento Series 10, Vol. 14, 1959, p. 951. <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:4">Iliopoulos, John (1996), Krige, John (ed.), History of CERN, Volume 3, Elsevier, p. 301, ISBN 978-0-444-89655-1 <a href="978-0-444-89655-1" target="_blank">978-0-444-89655-1</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:5">Cao, Tian Yu (1998), Conceptual developments of 20th century field theories, Cambridge University Press, p. 224, ISBN 978-0-521-63420-5 <a href="978-0-521-63420-5" target="_blank">978-0-521-63420-5</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:6">Collins, P. D. B. (1977). An Introduction to Regge Theory and High-Energy Physics. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-21245-6. <a href="0-521-21245-6" target="_blank">0-521-21245-6</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:7">Eden, R. J. (1971). "Regge poles and elementary particles". Rep. Prog. Phys. 34 (3): 995–1053. Bibcode:1971RPPh...34..995E. doi:10.1088/0034-4885/34/3/304. S2CID 54093447. <a href="/wiki/Bibcode_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/Bibcode_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:8">Irving, A. C.; Worden, R. P. (1977). "Regge phenomenology". Phys. Rep. 34 (3): 117–231. Bibcode:1977PhR....34..117I. doi:10.1016/0370-1573(77)90010-2. <a href="/wiki/Bibcode_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/Bibcode_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:9">"Detecma, seat, design by Tullio Regge - Gufram". www.gufram.it. Retrieved 25 June 2023. <a href="https://www.gufram.it/en/prodotto-22-detecma" target="_blank">https://www.gufram.it/en/prodotto-22-detecma</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:10">Piero Bianucci (25 October 2014). "Addio a Tullio Regge, genio della fisica". La Stampa. p. 18. Retrieved 25 October 2014. <a href="http://www.lastampa.it/2014/10/24/cronaca/addio-a-tullio-regge-genio-della-fisica-HHm1SM7apvMxeoPy2XsB1H/pagina.html" target="_blank">http://www.lastampa.it/2014/10/24/cronaca/addio-a-tullio-regge-genio-della-fisica-HHm1SM7apvMxeoPy2XsB1H/pagina.html</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:11">"Oltre trecento persone hanno dato oggi pomeriggio l'ultimo saluto al grande fisico scomparso a 83 anni" (in Italian). La Repubblica. Retrieved 26 October 2014. <a href="http://torino.repubblica.it/cronaca/2014/10/25/news/i_funerali_di_regge_il_figlio_un_uomo_che_emozionava-99013391/" target="_blank">http://torino.repubblica.it/cronaca/2014/10/25/news/i_funerali_di_regge_il_figlio_un_uomo_che_emozionava-99013391/</a> <a href="#fnref:11" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:12">""Mio padre Tullio Regge: parlava sette lingue e sfidava i Testimoni di Geova leggendo la Bibbia in originale"" (in Italian). Corriere della Sera. 29 December 2023. Retrieved 11 July 2024. <a href="https://torino.corriere.it/notizie/cronaca/23_dicembre_29/mio-padre-tullio-regge-parlava-sette-lingue-e-sfidava-i-testimoni-di-geova-leggendo-la-bibbia-in-originale-be081eb6-7c8b-4417-b48e-b0e13cb02xlk.shtml" target="_blank">https://torino.corriere.it/notizie/cronaca/23_dicembre_29/mio-padre-tullio-regge-parlava-sette-lingue-e-sfidava-i-testimoni-di-geova-leggendo-la-bibbia-in-originale-be081eb6-7c8b-4417-b48e-b0e13cb02xlk.shtml</a> <a href="#fnref:12" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:13">Castellani, Leonardo; Ceresole, Anna; d'Auria, Riccardo; Fré, Pietro (2019). Tullio Regge: An Eclectic Genius. doi:10.1142/11643. ISBN 978-981-12-1343-4. <a href="978-981-12-1343-4" target="_blank">978-981-12-1343-4</a> <a href="#fnref:13" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:14">"Dubbi sulla scienza: e se le sue leggi non fossero oggettive?" (in Italian). La Stampa. 11 July 2024. Retrieved 11 July 2024. <a href="https://www.lastampa.it/scienza/2024/07/11/news/leggi_fisica_wheeler_lloyd_regge_libro-14465592/" target="_blank">https://www.lastampa.it/scienza/2024/07/11/news/leggi_fisica_wheeler_lloyd_regge_libro-14465592/</a> <a href="#fnref:14" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:15">"Tullio Regge receives Albert Einstein Award", Physics Today, 32 (5): 82, May 1979, Bibcode:1979PhT....32e..82., doi:10.1063/1.2995565 <a href="/wiki/Bibcode_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/Bibcode_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:15" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:16">"APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 6 June 2022. <a href="https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Tullio+Regge&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced" target="_blank">https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Tullio+Regge&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced</a> <a href="#fnref:16" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:17">Dirac Medalists 1996 — ICTP Portal <a href="http://prizes.ictp.it/Dirac/DiracMedal96.html" target="_blank">http://prizes.ictp.it/Dirac/DiracMedal96.html</a> <a href="#fnref:17" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:18">MARCEL GROSSMANN AWARDS <a href="http://www.icra.it/mg/mg11/mg11awards-booklet.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.icra.it/mg/mg11/mg11awards-booklet.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:18" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:19">Pomeranchuk Prize Winners 2001 Archived 2011-07-22 at the Wayback Machine <a href="http://www.itep.ru/eng/in_eng.shtml?../eng/ppw2001.html" target="_blank">http://www.itep.ru/eng/in_eng.shtml?../eng/ppw2001.html</a> <a href="#fnref:19" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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