John Pople

John Pople
Born
John Anthony Pople

(1925-10-31)31 October 1925
Died15 March 2004(2004-03-15) (aged 78)
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Known forComputational methods in quantum chemistry
Spouse
Joy Bowers
(m. 1952; died 2002)
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
Thesis Lone Pair Electrons[2]  (1951)
Doctoral advisorJohn Lennard-Jones[2]
Doctoral students
Websitenobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1998/pople-bio.html

Sir John Anthony Pople KBE FRS[1] (31 October 1925 – 15 March 2004)[1][6] was a British theoretical chemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Walter Kohn in 1998 for his development of computational methods in quantum chemistry.[7][8][9][10]

  1. ^ a b c Buckingham, A. D. (2006). "Sir John Anthony Pople. 31 October 1925 -- 15 March 2004: Elected FRS 1961". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 52: 299–314. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2006.0021. S2CID 68810170.
  2. ^ a b c John Pople at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ Martin Head-Gordon IAQMS page
  4. ^ "Mark Gordon Conference".
  5. ^ Krishnan Raghavachari page
  6. ^ Gordon, M. S.; Kim, H. J.; Ratner, M. A. (2005). "John Anthony Pople". Physics Today. 58 (4): 79–80. Bibcode:2005PhT....58d..79G. doi:10.1063/1.1955494.
  7. ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "John Pople", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
  8. ^ John Pople on Nobelprize.org Edit this at Wikidata
  9. ^ "Pople's early photo (1950s)". Archived from the original on 26 September 2008. Retrieved 18 March 2004.
  10. ^ John Pople Oral history (pdf) Archived 18 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine