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Meet "Mr. Molecule"

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Biographical article about Robert Mulliken (1896-1986) detailing his life and career as a physicist and highlighting his contributions to quantum chemistry, particularly his development of Molecular Orbital Theory. This work earned Mulliken the nickname "Mr. Molecule," and later, the 1966 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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University of Chicago. “Meet ‘Mr. Molecule.’” Chicago, Illinois, March 1961. Robert S. Mulliken & Harrison Shull Correspondence, Box 1. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/v405s940m.

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