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John Pople
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Nobel prize winning British chemist (1925-2004)
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John Pople (1925–2004) was a British mathematician, chemist, physicist, and university teacher. Born in Burnham-on-Sea, he received his Doctor of Philosophy from Trinity College, University of Cambridge, under the supervision of John Lennard-Jones. His fields of work included theoretical chemistry, quantum chemistry, and computational chemistry. He served as a doctoral advisor to David Buckingham and held positions at Northwestern University, Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Cambridge, and the National Physical Laboratory.
Pople was a member of the Royal Society, the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Australian Academy of Science. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the Copley Medal, and the Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire. He died of liver cancer in Chicago.
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry1998
“for his development of computational methods in quantum chemistry”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Burnham-on-Sea
- Place of death
- Chicago
- Occupation
- physicist
- Employer
- Trinity College
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Doctoral advisor
- John Lennard-Jones
- Field of work
- computational chemistry
- Image
- John Anthony Pople.png
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- member of
- National Academy of Sciences
- date of birth
- 1925-10-31
- date of death
- 2004-03-15
- cause of death
- liver cancer
- Erdős number
- 5
- manner of death
- natural causes
- Commons category
- John Pople
- name in native language
- Sir John Pople
- birth name
- John Anthony Pople
- honorific prefix
- Sir
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- interested in
- mathematics
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Early life and education
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