John Pople
John Pople
Sir John Anthony Pople, KBE FRS was a theoretical chemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Walter Kohn in 1998 for his development of computational methods in quantum chemistry...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth31 October 1925
John Pople quotes about
benefit english-scientist love
Like many other Laureates, I have benefit immeasurably from the love and support of my wife and children.
english-scientist textbook
I found a discarded textbook on calculus in a wastebasket and read it from cover to cover.
bristol cambridge employment english-scientist industrial leave
I had to leave Cambridge and take up industrial employment for a period. This was with the Bristol Aeroplane Company. There was little to do there.
awards students nobel
I am delighted to have had students, friends and colleagues in so many nations and to have learned so much of what I know from them. This Nobel Award honours them all.
branches modern scientist
I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the more modern branches of pure mathematics.