Tullio Regge
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Tullio Eugenio Regge (Italian: [ˈtulljo ˈrɛddʒe]; 11 July 1931 – 23 October 2014) was an Italian theoretical physicist.[1]
Biography
Regge obtained the
In 1959, Regge discovered a mathematical property of potential scattering in the Schrödinger equation—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. , requiring complex angles).[3][4][5][6][7][8] This formulation is known as Regge theory.
In the early 1960s, Regge introduced Regge calculus, a simplicial formulation of general relativity. Regge calculus was the first discrete gauge theory suitable for numerical simulation, and an early relative of lattice gauge theory. 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 quantum gravity known as spin foam models. In mathematics, the model also developed into the Turaev-Viro model, an example of a quantum invariant.
In the mid-1960s he was approached by Radical period furniture manufacturer Gufram, for whom he "transformed a mathematical quartic function into a volume with intentionally ergonomic characteristics" to create the design for his 1968 Detecma seat.[10]
Awards and honours
He received the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics in 1964, the Città di Como prize in 1968, the Albert Einstein Award in 1979,[11] and the Cecil Powell Medal in 1987.
Regge was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1982.[12]
In 1989, Regge was elected to the European Parliament as a candidate of the Italian Communist Party 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
Regge theory, a theory of strong interaction phenomenology at high energies, and Regge calculus are named 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 e futuro del cosmo, 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 Einaudi, 1987
- Cronache Dell'Universo, Boringhieri, 1981
References
- ^ Piero Bianucci (24 October 2014). "Addio a Tullio Regge, genio della fisica". lastampa.it. p. 18. Retrieved 25 October 2014.
- ^ D'Auria, Riccardo (January 2015). "Faces and places: Tullio Regge 1931-2014" (PDF). CERN Courier. 55 (1): 39–40.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Tullio Regge, "Introduction to complex angular momentum," Il Nuovo Cimento Series 10, Vol. 14, 1959, p. 951.
- ISBN 978-0-444-89655-1
- ISBN 978-0-521-63420-5
- ISBN 0-521-21245-6.
- S2CID 54093447.
- .
- ^ G. Ponzano; T. Regge (1968). "Semiclassical limit of Racah coefficients". In Bloch, F. (ed.). Spectroscopic and group theoretical methods in physics. Amsterdam: North-Holland Publ. Co. pp. 1–58.
- ^ "Detecma, seat, design by Tullio Regge - Gufram". www.gufram.it. Retrieved 25 June 2023.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
- ^ Dirac Medalists 1996 — ICTP Portal
- ^ MARCEL GROSSMANN AWARDS
- ^ Pomeranchuk Prize Winners 2001 Archived 2011-07-22 at the Wayback Machine
External links
- Tullio Regge at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Tullio Regge on INSPIRE-HEP
- (in Italian) L'utopia del progresso a "rischio zero", articolo di Tullio Regge su "La Repubblica" (2001)
- (in Italian) L'imperdibile intervista a Tullio Regge e Rita Levi-Montalcini, da Memoro - la Banca della Memoria
- (in Italian) Premi Guilio Natta e Nicolò Copernico: Tullio Regge, biographical sketch of prize committee member.