1. From 1958 to 1959 Tullio Regge held a post at the Max Planck Institute for Physics where he worked with Werner Heisenberg.
12 Facts About Tullio Regge
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Tullio Regge held an appointment at the Institute for Advanced Study from 1965 to 1979.
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Tullio Regge was an emeritus professor at the Polytechnic University of Turin while contributing work at CERN as a visiting scientist.
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Tullio Regge was married to Rosanna Cester, physicist, by whom he had three children: Daniele, Marta and Anna.
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Tullio Regge calculus was the first discrete gauge theory suitable for numerical simulation, and an early relative of lattice gauge theory.
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Tullio Regge died at the San Luigi hospital in Orbassano on 23 October 2014 at the age of 83 due to complications from pneumonia.
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Tullio Regge is considered to be the most influential Italian physicist of the 20th century, after Enrico Fermi.
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Tullio Regge received the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics in 1964, the Citta di Como prize in 1968, the Albert Einstein Award in 1979, and the Cecil Powell Medal in 1987.
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Tullio Regge was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1982.
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In 1989, Tullio Regge was elected to the European Parliament as a candidate of the Italian Communist Party and served until 1994.
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Tullio Regge served as president of the Turin section of the Association for Research in Handicap Prevention.
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Tullio Regge was awarded the Dirac Medal in 1996, the Marcel Grossmann Award in 1997, and the Pomeranchuk Prize in 2001.