# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/anthony-zee
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:09:15.314Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/anthony-zee"
name: "Anthony Zee"
slug: "anthony-zee"
description: "Anthony Zee is a Chinese-American physicist, writer, and a professor at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics and the physics department of the University of California, Santa Barbara. His popular publications include Fearful Symmetry: The Search for Beauty in Modern Physics and An Old Man's Toy: Gravity at Work and Play in Einstein's Universe. His textbooks include 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 Swallowing Clouds: A Plafyul Journey Through Chinese Language, Culture and Cuisine."
tagline: "American physicist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Anthony_Zee.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
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  slug: "scientist"
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birthDate: "1945-06-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump