Mulliken

American  

[muhl-i-kuhn] / ˈmʌl ɪ kən /

noun

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

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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

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Example Sentences

Mr. Mulliken says he is in the process of signing a lease that will give the company enough space for 450.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 6, 2015

“We all kind of assumed that Osaki was going to rule the day,” Mulliken said.

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