Anthony Zee

Anthony Zee
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Born	1945 Kunming, Republic of China
Fields	Physics
Institutions	University of California, Santa Barbara
Alma mater	Princeton University Harvard University
Doctoral advisor	Sidney Coleman

Anthony Zee
Simplified Chinese	徐一鸿
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Xú Yīhóng

Anthony Zee (Chinese: 徐一鸿, b. 1945) (Zee is the Shanghainese pronunciation of 徐) is a Chinese American physicist, writer, and currently a professor at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics and the physics department of the University of California, Santa Barbara.

After graduating from Princeton, Zee obtained his PhD from Harvard in 1970, supervised by Sidney Coleman. During 1970–72 and 1977–78, he was at the Institute for Advanced Study. From 1973 to 1978, he was an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow. In his first year as assistant professor at Princeton, Zee had Ed Witten as his teaching assistant and grader.

Professor Zee has authored or co-authored more than 200 scientific publications and several books. He has written on particle physics, condensed matter physics, anomalies in physics, random matrix theory, superconductivity, the quantum Hall effect, and other topics in theoretical physics and evolutionary biology, as well as their various interrelations.

Zee is an accomplished teacher, covering both general relativity and quantum field theory. The culmination of his teaching is his text Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell. He is also the author of several books for general readers about physics and Chinese culture.

Books

Technical:

• 1982. Unity of Forces in the Universe. Singapore: World Scientific.
• 2007. Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell. 2nd ed. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-01019-9
• 2013. Einstein Gravity in a Nutshell. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0691145587

General readers:

• 1989. An Old Man's Toy, Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-02-633440-2
• 1990. Swallowing Clouds. University of Washington Press. ISBN 978-0-671-74724-4
• 2007. Fearful Symmetry: The Search for Beauty in Modern Physics, 2nd ed. Princeton University Press. Foreword by Roger Penrose. ISBN 978-0-691-00946-9. 1986 1st ed. published by Macmillan.

External links

• Anthony Zee's Personal Web Page