Anthony Zee

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Anthony Zee

Born	1945 Kunming in China
Fields	Physics
Institutions	University of California, Santa Barbara

Anthony Zee (* 1945 in Kunming) 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 at Santa Barbara, California.

Zee got his Ph.D. from Harvard 1970. He was from 1970 to 1972 and 1977/78 at the Institute for Advanced Study and from 1973 to 1978 Alfred P. Sloan Fellow.

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

He has also written a textbook on quantum field theory whose title is "Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell" as well as several other books about physics, the Chinese culture, and other topics. Zee is also an achieved teacher who usually teaches courses on general relativity and advanced quantum field theory.

Zee's scientific publications have received about 10,000 citations and his h-index is about 50 as of 2006.

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Fearful Symmetry, Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0691009469
An Old Man's Toy, Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0026334402
Swallowing Clouds, University of Washington Press. ISBN 978-0671747244
Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell, Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0691010199