# Robert S. Mulliken

> He built the mathematical scaffolding that lets chemists predict how atoms actually lock together into molecules — work abstract enough that most people never learn his name, but foundational enough to earn him the 1966 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

*American physicist, chemist and botanical collector (1896 - 1986)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Scientist ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Scientists
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1896-06-07
- **Died:** 1986-10-31
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Robert Sanderson Mulliken was born June 7, 1896, and trained as an American physical chemist at a moment when the quantum revolution was rewriting the rules of matter. He devoted himself to molecular orbital theory, developing the method that computes molecular structure not by classical bonds but by the behavior of electrons across entire molecules. The elaboration was painstaking, mathematical, and it worked. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1966, then the Priestley Medal in 1983. He died October 31, 1986, having given chemistry a language it still speaks.

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## Topics
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