1. Robert Plomin is the author of several books on genetics and psychology.

1. Robert Plomin is the author of several books on genetics and psychology.
Robert Plomin was born in Chicago to a family of Polish-German extraction.
Robert Plomin then worked at the Institute for Behavioral Genetics at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Robert Plomin has been president of the Behavior Genetics Association.
In 1987 Robert Plomin married Judith Dunn, a British psychologist and academic.
Robert Plomin was awarded the William James Fellow Award by the Association for Psychological Science in 2004 and the 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Society for Intelligence Research.
In 2017, Robert Plomin received the APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions.
Robert Plomin has been ranked among the 100 most eminent psychologists of the 20th Century.
Robert Plomin was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2023 New Year Honours for services to scientific research.
Robert Plomin has argued for the importance of non-shared environment, a term that he coined to refer to the idiosyncratic environmental factors that reduce the similarity of individuals raised in the same family environment.