About 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. Mulliken became a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1936, the youngest member in the organization's history at the time. He graduated in 1913 and succeeded in getting a scholarship to MIT which had earlier been won by his father. Mulliken helped with some of the editorial work when his father wrote his four-volume text on organic compound identification, and thus became an expert on organic chemical nomenclature.
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