Died 1986-10-31.
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Robert S. Mulliken
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.
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science · American physicist and chemist (1896–1986) · physicist · theoretical chemist · university teacher · chemist · also Robert S. Mulliken, Robert Sanderson Mulliken, R. S. Mulliken, Mulliken
Born 7 June 1896 · Died 31 October 1986 · Q233355
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1986· 2 entries
“...the more accurate the calculations became, the more the concepts tended to vanish into thin air.”
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1983· 2 entries
Won Priestley Medal (1983).
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Mulliken received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement
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1981· 1 entry
Mulliken became a founding member of the World Cultural Council
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1967· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1967).
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1966· 2 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for his fundamental work concerning chemical bonds and the electronic structure of molecules by the molecular orbital method.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1966).
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1965· 1 entry
Awarded Willard Gibbs Award (1965).
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1964· 1 entry
Awarded Silliman Memorial Lectures (1964).
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1963· 1 entry
Awarded Peter Debye Award in Physical Chemistry (1963).
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1961· 1 entry
Became Distinguished Professor of Physics and Chemistry at Florida State University, and continued in his studies of molecular structure and spectra, ranging from diatomic molecules to large complex aggregates
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1940· 1 entry
And the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1965
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1936· 1 entry
The youngest member in the organization's history at the time
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1934· 1 entry
Derived a new scale for measuring the electronegativity of elements, which he defined as the average of an atom's ionization enthalpy and electron affinity
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1930· 1 entry
Travelled as a Guggenheim Fellow to work at Leipzig University with Werner Heisenberg, Edward Teller, and Friedrich Hund
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1929· 2 entries
Married Mary Helen von Noé, daughter of Adolf Carl Noé, a geology professor at the University of Chicago
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Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1929).
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1927· 1 entry
Mulliken worked with Hund and as a result developed his molecular orbital theory, in which electrons are assigned to states that extend over an entire molecule
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1925· 1 entry
And 1927, Mulliken traveled to Europe, working with outstanding spectroscopists and quantum theorists such as Erwin Schrödinger, Paul A
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1923· 1 entry
For two years so he could study isotope effects on band spectra of such diatomic molecules as boron nitride (BN) (comparing molecules with B10 and B11)
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1921· 1 entry
Based on research into the separation of isotopes of mercury by evaporation, and continued in his isotope separation by this method
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1913· 1 entry
And succeeded in getting a scholarship to MIT which had earlier been won by his father
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1896· 1 entry
Born 1896-06-07.
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