Mulliken

American  

[muhl-i-kuhn] / ˈmʌl ɪ kən /

noun

1. Robert Sanderson 1896–1986, U.S. chemist and physicist: Nobel Prize in chemistry 1966.

---

Mulliken British  

/ ˈmʌlɪkən /

noun

1. Robert Sanderson. 1896–1986, US physicist and chemist, who won the Nobel prize for chemistry (1966) for his work on bonding and the electronic structure of molecules

---

Example Sentences

“Berlin feels a little bit like if you were to take San Francisco from 1999 and move it forward,” said John Mulliken, who runs Wayfair.com W 5.31 % ’s international operations.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 6, 2015

Even his father held out little hope, Mulliken told The Chicago Sun-Times in 2004.

From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2014

The theory of chemical bonding achieved its pinnacle in the development of quantum chemistry by pioneers like Linus Pauling, Robert S. Mulliken, John S. Slater, John Pople and Walter Kohn.

From Scientific American • Jul. 3, 2013

Massages–Joss & Main, Wellness is the hot word in employee perks, and John Mulliken, general manager and co-founder is a big believer.

From Time • Apr. 10, 2013

And a versatile inventor, Samuel Mulliken of Philadelphia, received four patents in one day for threshing grain, cutting and polishing marble, raising a nap on cloth, and breaking hemp.

From The Age of Invention : a chronicle of mechanical conquest by Thompson, Holland