Background
Mulliken, Robert Sanderson was born on June 7, 1896 in Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Samuel Parsons and Katherine (Mulliken) Mulliken.
Mulliken, Robert Sanderson was born on June 7, 1896 in Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Samuel Parsons and Katherine (Mulliken) Mulliken.
Bachelor of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1917. Doctor of Philosophy, University Chicago, 1921. Doctor of Science (honorary), Columbia University, 1939.
Doctor of Science (honorary), Marquette University, 1967. Doctor of Science (honorary), Cambridge University, 1967. Doctor of Science (honorary), Gustavus Adolphus College, 1975.
Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Stockholm University, 1960.
Research on war gases, Washington, 1917-1918;
technical research with, New Jersey Zinc Company, 1919;
research on separation of isotopes, 1920-1922;
research on molecular spectra and molecular structure, 1923-1984;
National research fellow, University of Chicago, 1921-1923;
National research fellow, Harvard, 1923-1925;
assistant professor physics, Washington Square College (New York University), 1926-1928;
associate professor physics, University of Chicago, 1928-1931;
professor physics, University of Chicago, 1931-1961;
Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Service professor, University of Chicago, 1956-1961;
Distinguished Service professor physics and chemistry, University of Chicago, 1961-1984;
Distinguished Research professor chemical physics, Florida State University, 1965-1971. Baker lecturer Cornell Univercity, 1960. Visiting professor, Bombay, 1962, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, 1962.
Silliman lecturer Yale, 1965. Jan Van Geuns visiting professor Amsterdam U., 1965. J.S. Guggenheim fellow for European study, 1930, 32, leave of absence, 1942-1945.
As director information division Plutonium Project at Chicago. Editor Plutonium Project Record in National Nuclear Energy Series. Fulbright research fellow for research at Oxford, 1952-1953.
Visiting fellow St. John's College, Oxford, 1952-1953. Science attaché American Embassy, London, 1955.
Served with C.W.S. United States Army, 1918. Fellow American Physical Society (chairman division chemical physics 1951-1952), American Association for the Advancement of Science, Royal Irish Academy (honorary), Indian National Academy of Sciences (honorary), London Chemical Society (honorary). Member National Academy of Sciences, American Philosophical Society, American Chemical Society (Priestley medal 1983), International Academy Quantum Molecular Science, American Academy Arts and Sciences, European Academy Arts, Sciences, and Humanities (titular member), Royal Society (foreign member), French Chemical Society (honorary), Royal Science Society of Liège (correspondent), Chemical Society Japan (honorary), Gamma Alpha, Phi Lambda Upsilon.
Clubs: Cosmos (Washington).
Married Mary Helen Noé, December 24, 1929 (deceased March 1975). Children: Lucia Maria (Mistress John P. Heard), Valerie Noé (deceased).