Facts: - field: physics - doctoral advisor: sidney coleman - work institution: university of california , santa barbara - birth date: 1945 - name: anthony zee - image size: 175px - image: anthony zee.jpg - birth place: kunming , republic of china - alma mater: princeton university harvard university Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of anthony zee .
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anthony zee -lrb- , b. 1945 -rrb- -lrb- zee is the shanghainese pronunciation of -rrb- 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 .after graduating from princeton , zee obtained his ph.d. 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 .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 .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 .