3 Quotes & Sayings By Robert S Mulliken

Robert S. Mulliken is an internationally recognized scientist who has received numerous awards including the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1976 for his work on semiconductors. While at the University of California, Berkeley, he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1969 with T.E. Creel and H.R Read more

Kornberg for their pioneering research on the structure of DNA. He also shared in the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics with Dennis Gabor and H.A. Bracken for his invention of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM), a crucial tool used in nanotechnology.

Dr. Mulliken is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Physics at Stanford University.

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I decided that life rationally considered seemed pointless and futile, but it is still interesting in a variety of ways, including the study of science. So why not carry on, following the path of scientific hedonism? Besides, I did not have the courage for the more rational procedure of suicide. Robert S. Mulliken
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While it is never safe to affirm that the future of Physical Science has no marvels in store even more astonishing than those of the past, it seems probable that most of the grand underlying principles have been firmly established and that further advances are to be sought chiefly in the rigorous application of these principles to all the phenomena which come under our notice. Robert S. Mulliken