The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1966

Robert S. Mulliken

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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1966 was awarded to Robert S. Mulliken "for his fundamental work concerning chemical bonds and the electronic structure of molecules by the molecular orbital method"

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