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Robert S. Mulliken, Nobel Laureate in chemistry, always had the intention to write a book about his field of research: molecular orbital theory. 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 Europe where he frequently travelled. And last but not least, he gives an accurate history of how the molecular orbital theory originated and how it evolved in an atmosphere of international exchange. The book is written in a particularly lively style, full of reminiscences and scientific facts, interwoven to produce an account of the Life of a Scientist.

I Early Life in Newburyport.- II Newburyport High School.- III MIT: Chemistry and Chemical Engineering.- IV World War I.- V A Job with the New Jersey Zinc Company.- VI The University of Chicago.- VII NRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard, 1923–25.- VIII England and Europe, 1925.- IX Assistant Professor of Physics, New York University at Washington Square, 1926–28.- X Europe Again, 1927.- XI Interpretation of Atmospheric Oxygen Bands, 1928.- XII Associate Professor of Physics at Chicago, 1928.- XIII Mary Helen.- XIV Guggenheim Fellowship, Half 1930, Half 1932.- XV Back to the University of Chicago.- XVI Guggenheim II. Europe Again in 1932–33.- XVII Chicago Again, 1933.- XVIII World War II, 1942.- XIX After the War: The Laboratory of Molecular Structure and Spectra.- XX The Shelter Island Conference: A Watershed.- XXI Advances in Molecular Spectroscopy.- XXII Oxford, Frankfurt and Tokyo, 1952–53.- XXIII Population Analysis.- XXIV Science Attaché, London, 1955.- XXV The Diatomic Molecule Project at LMSS, 1956–66: Broken Bottlenecks.- XXVI Moscow and Leningrad, 1958.- XXVII Further Advances in Molecular Spectroscopy.- XXVIII India and Japan, 1962.- XXIX Quantum Chemistry in Florida. Germany Again.- XXX Tallahassee.- XXXI The Nobel Prize, 1966.- XXXII Post-Prize Activities.- XXXIII Some Family Matters.- XXXIV Selected Papers Volume. Further Theoretical Work.- XXXV Valerie’s Death, 1983. The Academy of Achievement.- Chronology.- Bibliography of Robert S. Mulliken.- Footnotes.- Photographs.- Name Index.