John Pople

Sir John Anthony Pople, KBE FRS (31 October 1925 – 15 March 2004)^[1] was an English scientist. He was a Nobel Prize winning theoretical chemist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Walter Kohn in the year 1998.

Sir John Pople
Born	(1925-10-31)31 October 1925 Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, England
Died	15 March 2004(2004-03-15) (aged 78) Chicago, Illinois, United States
Nationality	England
Alma mater	Cambridge University
Known for	Computational methods in quantum chemistry
Awards	Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1998)
Scientific career
Fields	Theoretical chemistry Quantum chemistry Computational chemistry
Doctoral advisor	John Lennard-Jones
Doctoral students	A. David Buckingham Martin Head-Gordon

References

1. Frisch, Michael J. (17 March 2004). "Reflections on John Pople's Career and Legacy". Archived from the original on 24 July 2010. Retrieved 17 January 2014.

Other websites

• Pople's autobiography
• Pople's early photo (1950's)
• John Pople Oral history (pdf) Archived 2008-12-18 at the Wayback Machine