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.