John Pople

Sir John Pople KBE FRS

Born	John Anthony Pople (1925-10-31)31 October 1925 Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, England
Died	15 March 2004(2004-03-15) (aged 78) Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Alma mater	University of Cambridge
Known for	Computational methods in quantum chemistry
Spouse	Joy Bowers (m. 1952; died 2002)
Awards	Mayhew Prize (1948) FRS (1961) Irving Langmuir Award (1970) Davy Medal (1988) Wolf Prize in Chemistry (1992) Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1998) Copley Medal (2002)
Scientific career
Fields	Theoretical chemistry Quantum chemistry Computational chemistry
Institutions	Bristol Aeroplane Company University of Cambridge Carnegie Mellon University Northwestern University National Physical Laboratory
Thesis	Lone Pair Electrons (1951)
Doctoral advisor	John Lennard-Jones
Doctoral students	A. David Buckingham Martin Head-Gordon Mark S. Gordon Krishnan Raghavachari

Website	nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1998/pople-bio.html

Sir John Anthony Pople KBE FRS (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.