Samuel Parsons Mulliken

Background

Mulliken, Samuel Parsons was born on December 19, 1864 in Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Moses J. and Sarah D. (Gibbs) Mulliken.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Massachusetts Institute Technology, 1887. Doctor of Philisophy, University of Leipzig, 1890. Post-graduate study Clark University, Massachusetts, 1891.

Career

In chemistry, University of Cincinnati, 1887-1888. Associate in chemistry, Bryn Mawr College, 1892. Instructor and acting head of chemical department, Clark University, 1892-1894.

Instructor organic chemistry and organic analysis, 1895-1904, assistant professor, 1905-1913, associate professor organic chemical research, 1913-1926, professor of organic chemistry, since 1926, Massachusetts Institute Technology.

Major Chemical Warfare Service, United States of America, 1918. Author: Laboratory Experiments on the Class Reactions and Identification of Organic Substances, 1896.

The Compounds of Carbon with Hydrogen and Oxygen, 1904. The Commercial Dye-stuffs, 1909.

The Compounds of Carbon with Nitrogen, Hydrogen, and Oxygen, 1916.

The Compounds of the Higher Orders, 1922. Home: Newburyport, Massachusetts

Achievements

• Samuel Parsons Mulliken has been listed as a noteworthy chemist by Marquis Who's Who.

Connections

Married Katherine West. Mulliken, June 27, 1893. Children: Robert South., Samuel General Рractitioner, Katherine F. Assistant.