Tullio Regge
Tullio Regge Eugene ( born July 11, 1931 in Turin ) is an Italian physicist who worked mainly in theoretical elementary particle physics.
- 4.1 Literature
- 4.2 External links
- 4.3 Notes and references
Life
After a youth in the postwar years in which he was in danger of slipping into the criminal underworld, he graduated in 1952 at the University of Turin in physics. From 1954 to 1956 he continued his studies at the University of Rochester in New York continued his doctorate there and went 1958/1959 at the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich to Werner Heisenberg. In 1960 he developed the Regge calculus, a discrete version of general relativity. In this area, he worked with John Archibald Wheeler together ( study of the Schwarzschild singularity 1957) also since the 1950s. Since 1961 he was Professor of Theoretical Physics in Turin. In the 1960s he worked mainly at Princeton and at the city's Institute for Advanced Study, which he was a member from 1964. In 1979 he returned to Italy. He is currently a professor at the Polytechnic of Turin.
Regge is also politically active. From 1989 to 1994 he was a deputy in the European Parliament. With his friend Edoardo Amaldi he is a member of the Italian Society for the Study of paranormal phenomena ( CICAP ). He writes regularly in Italian newspapers, such as Le Scienze, the Italian edition of Scientific American.
He is a member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and the Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze. In 1964 he received the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics, 1967, Francesco Somaini Prize for Physics, 1979, the Einstein Award, the 1996 Dirac Medal ( ICTP ) and the 2001 Pomeranchuk Prize. In 1970 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Nice (Topic: Feynman integrals and S- matrix).
Work
Best known is his work in the analytic S-matrix theory of strong interactions. When viewed in the complex angular momentum space could be extended for the hadron resonances ( the Regge poles in line ) relations between the masses and angular momenta up, they could be placed on Regge trajectories ( Regge theory ). The idea of the program was to construct the S- matrix of symmetry arguments and analytic continuation. It was in the 1960s as a promising alternative to conventional quantum field theory. She experienced then a boom similar to the string theory in the 1980s. In addition Regge was studying the mathematical structure of Feynmanintegrale. In the 1990s he busied himself again reinforced with the gravitational theory ( quantum gravity, group theoretical approach ).
Publications
- Introduction to complex angular momentum. Il Nuovo Cimento Series 10, Bd.14, 1959, S.951.
- Bound states, shadow states and the Mandelstam representation. Nuovo Cimento Bd.18, 1960, S.947.
- Feynman integrals, algebraic topology methods and relativistic Feynman Amplitudes. in Les Houches Lectures 1964, Relativity, groups and topology.
- Feynman integrals. International Congress of Mathematicians 1970, Nice.
- S- matrix and Feynmanintegrals. Klauder in Magic without magic 1972.
- Group manifold approach to unified gravity. in Stora, deWitt (ed.) Relativity, groups and topology II, Les Houches Lectures, 1984.
- Vittorio deAlfaro, Regge potential scattering. North Holland, Amsterdam 1965.
- Elementary course in General Relativity. CERN 1983.
Popular scientific works in the Italian
- Primo Levi Dialogo. Einaudi 1987.
- Lettera ai giovani sulla scienza. Rizzoli, 2004.
- With Giulio Peruzzi: Spazio e tempo universo. Passato presente e futuro della teoria della relativity. UTET Libreria, 2003.
- L' universo senza fine. Breve storia del Tutto: passato e futuro del cosmo. Mondadori, Milan 1999.
- Infinito. Mondadori, Milan 1996.