JOHN A. POPLE

1998 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry

for his development of computational methods in quantum chemistry

• Born: 1925
• Place of Birth: Burnham-on-Sea in Somerset, U.K.
• Education: Ph.D. in Mathematics at Cambridge, U.K., in 1951
• Residence: U.S.A. (British citizen)
• Affiliation: Northwestern University, Department of Chemistry, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208, U.S.A.

• Exploring Chemistry With Electronic Structure Methods : A Guide To Using GAUSSIAN by James Foresman
• Approximate Molecular Orbital Theory by John A. Pople
• More books by John A. Pople
• Quantum Chemistry Of Atoms And Molecules by Philip Matthews (a good introductory book on the subject)
• Other books on Quantum Chemistry
• Books on Computational Chemistry

• Prize Co-recipient: Walter Kohn
• 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry announcement and background
• More in-depth packground (in Adobe PDF format)
• Northwestern University press release
• Home page of GAUSSIAN, the software program that John Pople helped develop

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• A New Journal needed a editor in Chemistry (submitted by Dr. Ji-Huan He)
• engl "Rudolf Gutachten" (submitted by Germar Rudolf)
• John A. Pople – Autobiography (submitted by Chinnappan Baskar)
• A Century of Chemical Dynamics Traced through the Nobel Prizes. 1998: Walter Kohn and John Pople (submitted by Chinnappan Baskar)
• A Century of Chemical Dynamics Traced through the Nobel Prizes. 1998: Walter Kohn and John Pople (submitted by Chinnappan Baskar)
• John A. Pople’s page at Northwestern Technological Institute (submitted by Dan)
• Nobel 1999: Walter Kohn & John A. Pople (submitted by Davis)
• John Pople Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry (submitted by Jackson)
• Sir John A. Pople (submitted by Samanta)
• John A. Pople – biography (submitted by Richard)
• John Pople – Autobiography (submitted by Bob)
• John A. Pople Biography from Emcyclopedia Britannica (submitted by www.britannica.com)
• Pople John Short Biography (submitted by Lukas)
• JOHN A. POPLE other (submitted by nobmer)

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