Anthony Zee(???)(Zee is dialect pronouncement of ?) (born in Kunming in China) 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.
Zee obtained his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1970. 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. His scientific publications have been cited more than 10,000 times, and his h-index is 54 as of 2006.
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.
1982. Unity of Forces in the Universe. Singapore: World Scientific.
2003. Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell. 1st & 2nd ed. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0691010199
General readers:
An Old Man's Toy, Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0026334402
2002. Swallowing Clouds. University of Washington Press. ISBN 978-0671747244
2007. Fearful Symmetry: The search for beauty in modern physics, 2nd ed. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0691009469. 1986 1st ed. published by Macmillan.