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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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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 6
Top works
- Leading Ladies
- John's Creation
- To Speak Well of God
- Once upon a Tom
- The King Who Fell
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1945-05-11
Discography
- Variations symphoniques / Cello Sonata / Piano Quintet
- String Symphonies: 9 in C minor / 10 in B minor / 12 in G minor1986
- Concertante1987
- Symphonies Nos. 6, 8, 141987
- String Symphonies: 5 in B-flat / 7 in D minor / 8 in D1989
- Favourite Classics1989
- The Planets1991
- Musical Offering1995
- Requiem / Cantique de Jean Racine / Messe Basse1995
- Orchestral Suites, Volume 21995
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 204,672x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,689x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,923x
- Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 35,597x
- The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
· 1992 · cited 29,138x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “Sometimes one can improve the theories in the sense of discovering a quicker, more efficient way of doing a given calculation.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry1998
“for his development of computational methods in quantum chemistry”
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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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