Robert S. Mulliken

✶June 7, 1896

†October 31, 1986

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About their life

Robert Sanderson Mulliken was an American physical chemist, primarily responsible for the early development of molecular orbital theory, i.e. the elaboration of the molecular orbital method of computing the structure of molecules. Mulliken received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1966 and the Priestley Medal in 1983.

American physicist, chemist and botanical collector (1896 - 1986)

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