Academic staff of the Polytechnic University of Turin

Eligio Perucca (28 March 1890 in Potenza – 5 January 1965 in Rome) was an Italian physics instructor and researcher at the University of Turin in Italy in the early decades of the twentieth century. He later served a professorship at the nearby Polytechnic University of Turin. He discovered an important principle in stereochemistry in 1919, but his contribution was overlooked and forgotten until recently.