 After failing an oral preliminary examination on mechanics and heat, and a second prelim in modern physics in 1949, Taylor was disqualified from the graduate program.Taylor married Caro Arnim in 1948 and had five children in the following years- Clare Hastings, Katherine Robertson, Christopher Taylor, Robert Taylor, and Jeffrey Taylor.Caro Arnim was majoring in Greek at Scripps College, a Liberal Arts University in Claremont California.