John Pople | |
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Born | John Anthony Pople 31 October 1925 Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, England |
Died | 15 March 2004 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. | (aged 78)
Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
Known for | Computational methods in quantum chemistry |
Spouse |
Joy Bowers
(m. 1952; died 2002) |
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Thesis | Lone Pair Electrons[2] (1951) |
Doctoral advisor | John Lennard-Jones[2] |
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Website | nobelprize |
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]