Mulliken, Robert Sanderson

Mulliken, Robert Sanderson (1896-1986), American chemist and Nobel laureate, born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, and educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Chicago. He joined the faculty of the University of Chicago in 1928, teaching both chemistry and physics. Mulliken was awarded the 1966 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for molecular studies that began when he was a high school student and resulted in his formulating methods of describing, analysing, and computing the structure of molecules. Mulliken helped to develop the atomic bomb during World War II.