Luciano Fonda (12 December 1931 – 21 July 1998) was an Italian theoretical physicist, author of a hundred scientific publications,[1] including a book on quantum symmetries.

Luciano Fonda was the Director of the Advanced School of Physics, which was open to scholarship holders from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of Vienna and UNESCO.

[4] From 1980 to 1985 he participated in the Intergovernmental Committee of Brussels responsible for choosing the site on which to build a European 5GeV synchrotron light machine.

He was also conferred the title of Associate Member of the Jozef Stefan Institute for his collaboration with the theoretical physics group from the University of Ljubljana.

For the ELETTRA initiative he was conferred the San Giusto d’Oro Prize,[5][circular reference] in December 1993, an award assigned every year by local reporters to a Triestine who has made the city famous in Italy and the world with his/her work.