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Name
  
Anthony Zee

Role
  
Physicist


Fields
  
Physics

Doctoral advisor
  
Sidney Coleman

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Institutions
  
University of California, Santa Barbara

Alma mater
  
Princeton University Harvard University

Education
  
Princeton University, Harvard University

Nominations
  
James Beard Award for Writing and Literature

Books
  
Quantum field theory in a nutsh, Fearful symmetry, Swallowing Clouds, Unity of forces in the univer, An old man's toy

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Anthony Zee (Chinese: 徐一鸿, b. 1945) (Zee comes from /ʑi23/, 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.

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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.

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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.

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Zee is an accomplished teacher, covering both general relativity and quantum field theory. The culmination of his teaching are his highly regarded and widely praised "trilogy" of graduate level textbooks: Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell, Einstein Gravity in a Nutshell, and Group Theory in a Nutshell for Physicists. He is also the author of several books for general readers about physics and Chinese culture.

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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
  • 2016. Group Theory in a Nutshell for Physicists. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0691162690

    • 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.

    • References

    Anthony Zee Wikipedia
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