Robert Hamilton Austin (born 1946) is an American physicist and a professor of physics at Princeton University.
[3] His current work concerns biological systems evolution and the research behind it.
[4] He is currently professor of physics at Princeton University.
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.