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JOHN POPLE

by

Maryjane P. Villanueva

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Early

Life/childhood

Scientific career/

Claim to fame

Major Scientific

contributions

Death

1925 2004

Nobel prize

19981935

Education

1951

Love life/Family Life

LIFE

CHRONOLOGY

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Early Life/Childhood

Born on October 31, 1925 in the Burnham-on-

Sea, Somerset, England

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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 librarianduring World War I

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Early Life/Childhood

At age 12

developed an intense interest inmathematics

He rescued a calculus book from the trashand read it cover to cover

At age 13

started some research projects onformulating the theory of permutations

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Education

Attended Bristol Grammar School

30 miles away from Poples home

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Education

During World War IIshipping port of Bristol was frequently

bombed by enemy raid

classes were held in deep undergroundbunkers.

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Education

1943earn a math scholarship to Cambridge

University's Trinity College

first member ofhis family to attend

college

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Education

1945earned his mathematics degree

Took a job with the Bristol Aeroplane

Company1951

earned his

doctoral degree in

mathematics in 1951

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Scientific Career

1958worked as a research fellow and

mathematics lecturer at Cambridge

head of the physics division of England'sNational Physical Laboratory

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Scientific Career

1964teaching chemical physics at Pittsburgh's

Carnegie Institute of Technology

(Carnegie-Mellon University)

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Scientific Career

Pople concentrated his efforts on exploringthe electronic structure of molecules

Research culminated in a computer programcalled Gaussian-70

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Major Scientific Contributions

Statistical mechanics of water Nuclear magnetic resonance

Semi-empirical theory

MO Theory

Developed methods of Complete Neglectof Differential Overlap (CNDO) and IntermediateNeglect of Differential Overlap (INDO) forapproximate MO calculations on three-dimensional

molecules

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNDO/2http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNDO/2http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INDOhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INDOhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INDOhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNDO/2

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Major Scientific Contributions

Ab initio electronic structure theory

Ab initio quantum chemistry methods

Gaussian computer program

Founder of the Q-Chem computational

chemistry program.

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Scientific Awards and Honors

Smith Prize (Cambridge, 1950), Marlow Medal (Faraday Society, 1958)

Irving Langmuir Award (American ChemicalSociety, 1970)

Harrison Howe Award (American ChemicalSociety, 1971)

Gilbert Newton Lewis Award (American Chemical

Society, 1973) Pittsburgh Award (American Chemical Society,

1975)

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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)

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Scientific Awards and Honors

1998received the Nobel Prize in

Chemistry along with Walter Kohn

for work on computational

methodology in quantumchemistry

2003Knight Commander (KBE) of the Order of

the British Empire

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_British_Empirehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_British_Empirehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_British_Empirehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_British_Empirehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_British_Empirehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_British_Empirehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_British_Empire

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Love Life/Family Life

Took up the piano lessonhired 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

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Death

2002Wife died of cancer

March 15,2004

Pople died of liver cancer

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I must emphasize that my contribution to

quantum chemistry has depended hugely onwork by others.

The international community in our field is a

close one, meeting frequently and exchangingideas freely.

I am delighted to have had students, friends

and colleagues in so many nations and to havelearned so much of what I know from them. This Nobel Award honours them all.

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