Anthony Zee

Anthony Zee is a Chinese-American physicist, writer and professor born in Kunming, China in 1945, at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics and the physics department of the University of California, Santa Barbara. He emigrated to the United States in 1962 to attend Princeton University, where he worked with John Archibald Wheeler, and took his PhD at Harvard in 1970, supervised by Sidney Coleman, with a focus on the use of group theory in physics. His textbooks include Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell, Einstein Gravity in a Nutshell and Group Theory in a Nutshell for Physicists, and his popular books include Fearful Symmetry.