Robert Hamilton Austin (born 1946) is an American physicist and a professor of physics at

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Life

He was born in St. Charles, Illinois in 1946. He received his BA in 1968 from Hope College. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His current work concerns biological systems evolution and the research behind it.

Career

He is currently Professor of Physics at Princeton University. He is a Fellow of the

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(1988) and the

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. He was elected as a member of the

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in 1999 and a member of the

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in 2008. In 2005, he received the

Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize The Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize of the American Physical Society, to remember Julius Edgar Lilienfeld, has been awarded annually, since 1989. (It was not awarded in 2002). The purpose of the Prize is to recognize outstanding contributions to phy ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Austin, Robert Hamilton 21st-century American physicists Living people 1946 births Princeton University faculty Fellows of the American Physical Society Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences