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John Pople

1925 - 2004

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Sir John Anthony Pople (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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Pople is the 235th most popular chemist (up from 287th in 2019), the 907th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,129th in 2019) and the 34th most popular British Chemist.

John Pople is most famous for his work in developing the density functional theory.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, John Pople ranks 235 out of 602. Before him are Ignacy Mościcki, Stanley Miller, James B. Conant, Stanislao Cannizzaro, August Wilhelm von Hofmann, and John Frederic Daniell. After him are Johann Josef Loschmidt, Hideki Shirakawa, Louis Jacques Thénard, Charles J. Pedersen, Hennig Brand, and Antoine Jérôme Balard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, John Pople ranks 74. Before him are Wong Fei-hung, Jean Tinguely, Michael Halliday, Joshua Lederberg, Frei Otto, and Tom Gehrels. After him are John Cocke, Celia Cruz, József Bozsik, Claude Lanzmann, Alain Touraine, and Michele Ferrero. Among people deceased in 2004, John Pople ranks 40. Before him are Renata Tebaldi, Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi, Edward B. Lewis, Jerry Goldsmith, John Vane, and Ingrid Thulin. After him are Thomas Klestil, Godfrey Hounsfield, Masanori Tokita, Takeshi Kamo, Marvin Heemeyer, and Matthäus Hetzenauer.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Pople ranks 907 out of 8,785. Before him are Kenneth Clark (1903), John Pell (1611), Malcolm IV of Scotland (1141), John Gielgud (1904), Banksy (1970), and Anne Conway (1631). After him are Margaret Rutherford (1892), Henry, Duke of Cornwall (1511), Graham Taylor (1944), Peter Mansfield (1933), Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth (1876), and William Huggins (1824).

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Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, John Pople ranks 34. Before him are James Dewar (1842), Geoffrey Wilkinson (1921), John Newlands (1837), John Vane (1927), William Hyde Wollaston (1766), and John Frederic Daniell (1790). After him are Ida Noddack (1896), Fraser Stoddart (1942), Thomas Graham (1805), Richard J. Roberts (1943), Thomas Andrews (1813), and William Henry (1774).

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