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Robert Hamilton Austin

Robert Hamilton Austin

American physicist

Robert Hamilton Austin (born 1946) is an American physicist and a professor of physics at Princeton University.[1][2]

Life

He was born in St. Charles, Illinois in 1946.[3]

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.[3] His current work concerns biological systems evolution and the research behind it.[4]

Career

He is currently professor of physics at Princeton University.[5][3]

He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (1988)[6] and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1999 and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2008.[7][8]

In 2005, he received the Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize.

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