Tullio Regge
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Tullio Regge (born July 11, 1931 in Turin) is an Italian physicist.
In the early 1960s, Regge introduced Regge calculus, a simplified form of general relativity. He received the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics in 1964, the Città di Como prize in 1968, the Einstein Medal in 1979, and the Cecil Powell Medal in 1987.
In 1989, Regge was elected to the European Parliament.
He was awarded the Dirac Medal in 1996.
The Regge theory, a theory of strong interactions at high energies, is named after him.
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