Folding RNA

Anthony Zee joined the Institute for Theoretical Physics and the Physics Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1985. Born in China, he attended high school in Brazil and came to the United States as an undergraduate at Princeton University. After receiving his doctorate from Harvard University in 1970, he spent various fractions of his life at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, Rockefeller University, Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Washington before coming to Santa Barbara. Among various distinctions he was an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow and a Dyson Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study.