Robert Hamilton Austin

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]

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.