Tony came to us from Sao Paulo, Brazil, where his parents had emigrated from China. See Tony's story and an oral history podcast from a 2016 Princeton Alumni Weekly article here. A physics major, he took almost as many art history courses as physics ones. Took his meals at the Wilson Society.

Tony then went on to a Ph.D. at Harvard, a stint at the Institute for Advanced Study, several faculty positions including at Princeton, and in 1985 took a joint appointment at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics and at the University of California Santa Barbara, where he will retire in a year or two. While his main areas of research have involved the fundamental structure of matter and cosmology, he is known for his unusual breadth of interests, including biophysics. He has written over 200 articles and ten books (eight of them published by Princeton University Press), ranging from textbooks to an effort to explain gravity to those of us who think it's about falling apples.

His Tiger Talk will focus on his writing career, which has been prolific. He hopes that the talk will be helpful to some classmates. Tony promises that there will be no physics quiz afterward and a minimal number of complex scientific terms.

He and Janice live in Santa Barbara with their son Max, just 15. His two other sons are Andrew '99, a former Hollywood assistant producer and a former DOJ attorney who now works at Meta and lives in the Bay Area, and Peter, a professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Mississippi, whose wife Margaret, a southern belle from Alabama, is expecting their second child and Tony’s fourth grandchild in early March.

Please plan to join us. It will start right on time at 4:00 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday, March 18. We will open the Zoom room at 3:45 for those who want to join in some '66 banter. You can join the conversation here.