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Robert S. Mulliken

1896 - 1986

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Robert Sanderson Mulliken (June 7, 1896 – October 31, 1986) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert S. Mulliken is the 83rd most popular chemist (up from 188th in 2019), the 440th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,167th in 2019) and the 12th most popular American Chemist.

Robert Mulliken is most famous for his work in developing the molecular orbital theory of chemical bonding.

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Among chemists, Robert S. Mulliken ranks 83 out of 602. Before him are Paul Sabatier, Albert Hofmann, Hans von Euler-Chelpin, Jan Baptist van Helmont, Frederick Sanger, and Carl Bosch. After him are Friedrich Bergius, Hans Fischer, James B. Sumner, Richard Laurence Millington Synge, J. D. Bernal, and Ernst Otto Fischer.

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Among people born in 1896, Robert S. Mulliken ranks 15. Before him are Tristan Tzara, Roman Jakobson, Antonin Artaud, Gerty Cori, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, and Konstantin Rokossovsky. After him are Klement Gottwald, Trygve Lie, Andrei Zhdanov, Paula Hitler, Milena Jesenská, and Carl Ferdinand Cori. Among people deceased in 1986, Robert S. Mulliken ranks 12. Before him are Andrei Tarkovsky, Cary Grant, Mircea Eliade, Tenzing Norgay, Jiddu Krishnamurti, and James Rainwater. After him are Jean Genet, Frank Herbert, Urho Kekkonen, Edward Adelbert Doisy, Cliff Burton, and Joseph Beuys.

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Among people born in United States, Robert S. Mulliken ranks 440 out of 20,380. Before him are Bette Davis (1908), 50 Cent (1975), Bruce Springsteen (1949), Robert F. Kennedy (1925), Coen brothers (null), and Robert Coleman Richardson (1937). After him are Fiorello H. La Guardia (1882), John D. Rockefeller Jr. (1874), Nina Simone (1933), Rachel Carson (1907), Philip Kotler (1931), and Lou Henry Hoover (1874).

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Among chemists born in United States, Robert S. Mulliken ranks 12. Before him are F. Sherwood Rowland (1927), Linus Pauling (1901), Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr. (1915), John Howard Northrop (1891), Wendell Meredith Stanley (1904), and Gertrude B. Elion (1918). After him are James B. Sumner (1887), Thomas Midgley Jr. (1889), Edward Adelbert Doisy (1893), Theodore William Richards (1868), William Howard Stein (1911), and Stanford Moore (1913).

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