Please answer the following question: Facts: - death place: beijing , china - caption: zhou peiyuan with his wife in 1932 - spouse: wang dicheng -lrb- -rrb- - field: physics - work institution: peking of leipzig institute for advanced study university swiss federal institute of technology zurich university - birth date: 28 august 1902 - name: zhou peiyuan - image: zhou peiyuan wedding picture.jpg - birth place: yixing , jiangsu province , qing china - alma mater: california chicago tsinghua university institute of technology -lrb- ph.d. -rrb- university of Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of zhou peiyuan .
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zhou peiyuan -lrb- chinese : ; august 28 , 1902 -- november 24 , 1993 -rrb- was a renowned theoretical physicist of china .he was a former president of peking university , and an academician of chinese academy of sciences -lrb- cas -rrb- .born in yixing , jiangsu province , zhou graduated from tsinghua university in 1924 .then he went to the united states and obtained a bachelor 's degree from university of chicago in spring of 1926 , and a master 's degree at the end of the same year .in 1928 , he obtained his doctorate degree from california institute of technology .in 1936 , he studied general relativity under albert einstein in institute for advanced study in princeton .he did his post-doc researches in quantum mechanics at university of leipzig in germany and swiss federal institute of technology zurich .he was a professor of physics at peking university , and later served as the president of the university .he was elected as a founding member of cas in 1955 .in 2003 , a bronze statue of zhou was unveiled on the campus of peking university .