Former Faculty: TULLIO EUGENE REGGE

Visitor, Particle Physics, School of Natural Sciences, December 1986–January 1987; Faculty, Particle Physics, School of Natural Sciences, July 1965–June 1981; Member, School of Mathematics, January 1963–June 1964

Regge was one of several physicists who formed a separate working group within the School of Mathematics in the 1950's and 1960's (the School of Natural Sciences was not established until 1966).

  • * PhD: University of Rochester, 1956
  • * Born: July 11, 1931 in Torino, Italy

Career Highlights:

  • * Regge's many scientific accomplishments led to his receiving the Dirac Medal in 1996 "for crucial contributions in theoretical and mathematical physics starting with his seminal investigation of the asymptotic behaviour of potential scattering processes through the analytic continuation of the angular momentum to the complex plane. This technique has found many applications in the study of differential equations while in the physics of the Strong Interactions, the so-called Regge trajectories have helped in the classification of particles and resonances by grouping together entities with different spin. The so-called Regge behaviour was, and still is, an important ingredient in the construction of String theories. In addition, Regge is also known for having introduced the first discretisation of space-time with a simple Einstein dynamics (the so-called Regge Calculus) and for his formulation of supergravity theories in the geometric language of differential forms."1
  • * Elected Member of the European Parliament in 1989.

Awards/Prizes include:

  • * Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics (1964)
  • * Cittá di Como Prize (1968)
  • * Einstein Medal (1979)
  • * Cecil Powell Medal (1987)
  • * Dirac Medal (1996)

1Dirac Medal Citation