- Anthony Zee
Infobox_Scientist
name = Anthony Zee
image_width = 175px
caption =
birth_date =1945
birth_place =Kunming ,Yunnan ,China
death_date =
death_place =
residence =
citizenship =
nationality =
ethnicity =
field =Physics
work_institution =University of California, Santa Barbara
alma_mater =
doctoral_advisor =
doctoral_students =
known_for =
author_abbreviation_bot =
author_abbreviation_zoo =
prizes =
religion =
footnotes =Anthony Zee (*
1945 inKunming Yunnan ) is aChinese American physicist,writer , and currently a professor at theKavli Institute for Theoretical Physics and the physics department of theUniversity of California atSanta Barbara, California .Zee got his Ph.D. from
Harvard 1970. He was from 1970 to 1972 and 1977/78 at theInstitute 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 , thequantum Hall effect , and other issues intheoretical 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 ongeneral relativity and advancedquantum field theory .Zee's scientific publications have received about 10,000 citations and his
h-index is about 50 as of2006 .Books
*"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 978-0691010199External links
* [http://www.itp.ucsb.edu/~zee/index.html Anthony Zee's Personal Web Page]
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
