Titlebook: Life of a Scientist; An Autobiographical Robert S. Mulliken,Bernard J. Ransil Book 1989 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1989 atmosphere.

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The University of Chicago,Harkins, at the University of Chicago. I don’t know why American physicists were not yet interested in atomic nuclei. For one, I think physicists at that time in general, and as students at MIT, had somewhat old-fashioned training.

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Associate Professor of Physics at Chicago, 1928,ale argued that that would not be fair to Professor A.J. Dempster, who was then an Associate Professor. Afterwards I said to myself: Why couldn’t they have promoted him? I finally said: All right, but you must promote me before long. That they did. The initial salary was $6,000, which at that time was very good.

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Mary Helen,ry Helen to the party, now a well-known expert on our resources of oil, had been helping in the kitchen and had spilled so much grease on his clothes that he was no longer fit to take Mary Helen to her home. So this pleasant duty fell to me.

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ory. This is his scientific autobiography, edited posthumously by his former student Bernard J. Ransil and complemented with a memoir by Friedrich Hund, his scientific protagonist. Mulliken describes his career and gives an account of the contributions of his friends and colleagues at home and in Eu

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World War I,ture. J.B. Conant, later well known as a chemist and administrator, was in charge. If I remember correctly he was then in uniform as a lieutenant in the Chemical Warfare Service (CWS). I think I had some good ideas about the chemical preparation of mustard gas, but was too timid to talk to him about them.