Tullio Eugenio Regge was an Italian theoretical physicist. He received his BSc in Physics from the University of Turin in 1952 under Mario Verde and Gleb Wataghin, and his PhD in Physics from the University of Rochester in 1957 under Robert Marshak. From 1958 to 1959 Regge held a position at the Max Planck Institute for Physics, where he worked with Werner Heisenberg. In 1961 he was appointed Professor of Relativity at the University of Turin. He also worked at the Institute for Advanced Study from 1965 to 1979. He was Professor Emeritus at the Polytechnic University of Turin, while also serving as a visiting scientist at CERN. Regge died on 23 October 2014. He was married to Rosanna Cester, a physicist, with whom he had three children: Daniele, Marta and Anna.