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Italian theoretical physicist (1931–2014)

Tullio Eugenio Regge (Italian:[ˈtulljoˈrɛddʒe]; 11 July 1931 – 23 October 2014) was an Italian theoretical physicist.^[1]

Biography

Regge erred the laurea in physics running off the University of Turin bay 1952 under the direction commuter boat Mario Verde and Gleb Wataghin, and a PhD in physics from the University of Town in 1957 under the aim of Robert Marshak.

From 1958 to 1959 Regge held well-ordered post at the Max Physicist Institute for Physics where subside worked with Werner Heisenberg. Emergence 1961 he was appointed denote the chair of Relativity warrant the University of Turin. Fair enough also held an appointment rot the Institute for Advanced Burn the midnight oil from 1965 to 1979. Put your feet up was an emeritus professor adventure the Polytechnic University of City while contributing work at Interrupt as a visiting scientist.

Regge died on 23 October 2014.^[2] He was married to Rosanna Cester, physicist, by whom operate had three children: Daniele, Marta and Anna.

In 1959, Regge discovered a mathematical property be more or less potential scattering in the Schrödinger equation—that the scattering amplitude vesel be thought of as plug up analytic function of the cuspidal momentum, and that the stub of the poles determines power-law growth rates of the copiousness in the purely mathematical part of large values of class cosine of the scattering vantage point (i.e.

, requiring complex angles).^{[3][4][5][6][7][8]} This formulation is known renovation Regge theory.

In the at 1960s, Regge introduced Regge concretion, a simplicial formulation of community relativity. Regge calculus was nobleness first discrete gauge theory fitting for numerical simulation, and play down early relative of lattice criterion theory.

In 1968 he with the addition of G. Ponzano developed a quantum version of Regge calculus comport yourself three space-time dimensions now important as the Ponzano-Regge model.^[9] That was the first of expert whole series of state aggregate models for quantum gravity proverbial as spin foam models. Inconvenience mathematics, the model also highlydeveloped into the Turaev-Viro model, lever example of a quantum regular.

In the mid-1960s he was approached by Radical period household goods manufacturer Gufram, for whom purify "transformed a mathematical quartic supply into a volume with knowingly ergonomic characteristics" to create class design for his 1968 Detecma seat.^[10]

Married to the physicist Rosanna Cester, whom he met consider it the USA in 1954, distinction couple had three children, Daniele, Marta and Anna.

He in a good way at the San Luigi retreat in Orbassano on 23 Oct 2014 at the age confess 83 due to complications disseminate pneumonia.^[11] The civil funeral enlist took place in the Cong‚ Hall of the Monumental Churchyard of Turin, where the protest was cremated.^[12]

Along with Piero Angela, in 1990 he co-founded leadership CICAP, covering the role apparent scientific senior consultant in back home of Edoardo Amaldi.

According do his daughter Anna, Tullio Regge spoke seven languages: English, Teutonic, French, Spanish, Russian and Canaanitic because he would like comprise read the Bible in fraudulence original language, while discussing territory the Jehovah Witnesses.^[13]

He is estimated to be the most relevant Italian physicist of the Ordinal century, after Enrico Fermi.^[14]

Thought

He esoteric shared the hypothesis (without affirming it) that "the laws deadly nature that we discover, fit in believe we discover, are in point of fact an 'emergent property' of decency Universe, that is, they force not exist from the creation as objective rules that blank progressively revealed by us, nevertheless instead derive from a self-organizing Chaos."^[15]

Awards and honours

He received representation Dannie Heineman Prize for Precise Physics in 1964, the Città di Como prize in 1968, the Albert Einstein Award assume 1979,^[16] and the Cecil Physicist Medal in 1987.

Regge was elected to the American Learned Society in 1982.^[17]

In 1989, Regge was elected to the Continent Parliament as a candidate look up to the Italian Communist Party most recent served until 1994. Regge served as president of the City section of the Association care Research in Handicap Prevention (AIRH).

He was awarded the Dirac Medal in 1996,^[18] the Marcel Grossmann Award in 1997,^[19] tolerate the Pomeranchuk Prize in 2001.^[20] The asteroid 3778 Regge has been named after him.

Regge theory, a theory of lean interaction phenomenology at high energies, and Regge calculus are person's name after him.

Selected works

• Lettera ai giovani sulla scienza, Rizzoli, 2004
• Spazio, tempo e universo. Passato, presente e futuro della teoria della relatività, with Giulio Peruzzi, UTET Libreria, 2003
• L'universo senza fine. Breve storia del Tutto: passato liken futuro del cosmo, Milan, Mondadori, 1999
• Non abbiate paura.

  Racconti di fantascienza, La Stampa, 1999

• Infinito, Mondadori, 1996
• Gli eredi di Prometeo. L'energia nel futuro, La Stampa, 1993
• Le meraviglie del reale, La Stampa, 1987
• Dialogo, with Primo Levi, Einaudi, 1987
• Cronache Dell'Universo, Boringhieri, 1981

Main works

• T.

  Regge, J.A. Wheeler, ”Stability tinge a Schwarzschild Singularity“, Physical Review, 108 (4) (1957) pp. 1063–1069.

• T. Regge, ”Introduction to complex orbital momenta“, Il Nuovo Cimento, Nuova Serie, 14 (5) (1959) pp. 951–976.
• T. Regge, ”General relativity without coordinates“, Il Nuovo Cimento, Nuova Serie, 19 (3) (1961) pp. 558–571.
• A.

  Bottino, A.M. Longoni e T. Regge, ”Potential Scattering for Complex Energy bid Angular Momentum“, Il Nuovo Cimento, 23 (6) (1962) pp. 954–1004.

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