Tullio Regge (born 11.07.1931) is an Italian theoretical physicist and a corresponding member of the Accademia dei Lincei (1972). He was born in Turin. He graduated from the University of Turin (1952) and in 1956 received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Rochester. He has worked at the University of Turin since 1957 (from 1962 professor and director of the Institute of Theoretical Physics at the university).
His work was in nonrelativistic quantum mechanics, quantum field theory, the theory of elementary particles and general relativity. In 1959 he developed a method (Regge poles, Regge trajectories) that makes it possible to classify states and elementary particles.