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JOHN POPLE by Maryjane P. Villanueva

Early Life/childhood Scientific career/ Claim to fame Major Scientific contributions Death Nobel prize Education 1951 Love life/Family Life LIFE CHRONOLOGY

Early Life/Childhood Born on October 31, 1925 in the Burnham-on- Sea, Somerset, England

Early Life/Childhood Father, Keith Pople  owned a clothing shop Mother, Mary Jones  served as a tutor to the area's wealthy families  also worked as an Army librarian during World War I

Early Life/Childhood At age 12  developed an intense interest in mathematics  He rescued a calculus book from the trash and read it cover to cover At age 13  started some research projects on formulating the theory of permutations

Education Attended Bristol Grammar School  30 miles away from Pople’s home

Education During World War II  shipping port of Bristol was frequently bombed by enemy raid  classes were held in deep underground bunkers.

Education  1943  earn a math scholarship to Cambridge University's Trinity College  first member of his family to attend college

Education  1945  earned his mathematics degree Took a job with the Bristol Aeroplane Company  1951  earned his doctoral degree in mathematics in 1951

Scientific Career  1958  worked as a research fellow and mathematics lecturer at Cambridge  head of the physics division of England's National Physical Laboratory

Scientific Career  1964  teaching chemical physics at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute of Technology (Carnegie-Mellon University)

Scientific Career  Pople concentrated his efforts on exploring the electronic structure of molecules  Research culminated in a computer program called Gaussian-70

Major Scientific Contributions Statistical mechanics of water Nuclear magnetic resonance Semi-empirical theory  MO Theory  Developed methods of Complete Neglect of Differential Overlap (CNDO) and Intermediate Neglect of Differential Overlap (INDO) for approximate MO calculations on three-dimensional moleculesCNDOINDO

Major Scientific Contributions Ab initio electronic structure theory  Ab initio quantum chemistry methods  Gaussian computer program -widely used used in chemical research from pharmaceuticals to plastics  Founder of the Q-Chem computational chemistry program.

Scientific Awards and Honors Smith Prize (Cambridge, 1950), Marlow Medal (Faraday Society, 1958) Irving Langmuir Award (American Chemical Society, 1970) Harrison Howe Award (American Chemical Society, 1971) Gilbert Newton Lewis Award (American Chemical Society, 1973) Pittsburgh Award (American Chemical Society, 1975)

Scientific Awards and Honors Morley Award (American Chemical Society, 1976) Pauling Award (American Chemical Society, 1977) Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Senior U.S. Scientist Award (1981) G. Willard Wheland Award (University of Chicago, 1981) Evans Award (Ohio State University, 1982) Oesper Award (University of Cincinnati, 1984) Davy Medal (Royal Society, 1988)

Scientific Awards and Honors  1998  received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Walter Kohn for work on computational methodology in quantum chemistry  2003  Knight Commander (KBE) of the Order of the British EmpireOrder of the British Empire

Love Life/Family Life Took up the piano lesson  hired Joy Bowers to instruct him  1952  Pople and Joy married Has one daughter, Hilary and three sons Adrian, Mark, and Andrew Has eleven grandchildren, and a great- granddaughter

Death  2002  Wife died of cancer  March 15,2004  Pople died of liver cancer

“I must emphasize that my contribution to quantum chemistry has depended hugely on work by others.” “The international community in our field is a close one, meeting frequently and exchanging ideas freely.” “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.”

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