The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1966
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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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