Multhauf was an editor for the academic journalIsis, published by the University of Chicago Press, from 1964 to 1978.[2] He became the director of the Museum of History and Technology in 1966, and remained in this position for four years until he was replaced with Daniel Boorstin. From 1970 to 1977, he worked as the senior scientific scholar of the Department of Science and Technology. He also worked for the Department of the History of Science from 1978 to 1979. He served as the president of the History of Science Society from 1979-80.[3] When the museum was renamed again in 1980, as the National Museum of American History, he joined the Office of Senior Historians.[1]
Introduction of self-registering meteorological instruments. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution. 1961.
as compiler with the assistance of David Davies: Catalogue of instruments and models in the possession of the American Philosophical Society. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society. 1961.
with Allen G. Debus: Alchemy and chemistry in the seventeenth century; papers read by Allen G. Debus and Robert P. Multhauf at a Clark Library seminar, March 12, 1966. Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California. 1966.
Origins of chemistry. London: Oldbourne. 1966. US edition. New York: F. Watts. 1967.[5]2nd edition. Langhorne, Pa., USA: Gordon and Breach Science Publishers. 1993.
as editor with Lloyd G. Stevenson: Medicine, science, and culture; historical essays in honor of Owsei Temkin. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press. 1968.[6]
History of chemical technology: an annotated bibliography. New York: Garland Pub. 1984.[9]
with Gregory Good: A brief history of geomagnetism and a catalog of the collections of the National Museum of American History. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. 1987.[10]
^Théodoridès, Jean (Autumn 1969). "Review of Medicine, Science, and Culture. Historical Essays in Honor of Owsei Temkin, ed. by Lloyd G. Stevenson and Robert P. Multhauf". Isis. 60 (3): 404–405. doi:10.1086/350519.
^Krätz, O.; Priesner, Claus (1980). "Review of Neptune's Gift by Robert P. Multhauf". Technology and Culture. 21 (4): 648–650. JSTOR3104093.
^Tarbell, D. Stanley (December 1984). "Review of The History of Chemical Technology: An Annotated Bibliography compiled by Robert Multhauf". Isis. 75 (4): 723. doi:10.1086/353655.
^Gubbins, David (1988). "Review of A Brief History of Geomagnetism and a Catalog of the Collections of the National Museum of American History by Robert P. Multhauf and Gregory Good". Journal for the History of Astronomy. 19 (2): 141–142. doi:10.1177/002182868801900206. S2CID220927931.