John Pople

Also known as Sir John Anthony Pople

Nobel prize winning British chemist (1925-2004)

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John Pople was a British chemist who won the Nobel Prize for his work developing computational methods to predict molecular behavior and chemical reactions. His contributions to computational chemistry were significant enough to earn him one of science's highest honors and helped establish computer modeling as an essential tool in chemical research.

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United Kingdom
Active from: 1945-05-11

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Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 200,687x
Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,733x
Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,361x
Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 34,340x
The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
· 1992 · cited 28,860x

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“Sometimes one can improve the theories in the sense of discovering a quicker, more efficient way of doing a given calculation.”

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date of birth: 1925-10-31
date of death: 2004-03-15
Erdős number: 5
Commons category: John Pople
name in native language: Sir John Pople
birth name: John Anthony Pople

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Sir John Anthony Pople (31 October 1925 – 15 March 2004) 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.

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