Robert S. Mulliken
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Robert Sanderson Mulliken 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 computi
Mulliken in 1929
Robert Mulliken, Chicago 1929 (third from right)
Linus Pauling
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Linus Carl Pauling was an American chemist and peace activist. He published more than 1,200 papers and books, of which about 850 dealt with scientific topics. Scientific American called him one of the
Robert S. Mulliken
…by Walter Heitler and Fritz London on the hydrogen molecule (H2) in 1927. With the conception of hybridized atomic orbitals by John C. Slater and Linus Pauling, which rationalized observed molecular geometries, the method was based on the premise that the bonds in any molecule could be described in a manner…
Pauling in the 1940s
Sickle Cell Blood Smear
Herman Henry William Pauling, Linus Pauling's father, c. 1900
Pauling's graduation photo from Oregon State University, 1922