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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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Pople has received more than 192,004 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). John Pople is the 287th most popular chemist (down from 222nd in 2019), the 1,129th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 964th in 2019) and the 37th most popular British Chemist.

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

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  • 3.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, John Pople ranks 287 out of 602. Before him are Carl Auer von Welsbach, Henry Taube, Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge, Andreas Sigismund Marggraf, Thomas Midgley Jr., and Rasmus Bartholin. After him are John Polanyi, Erwin Chargaff, Ben Feringa, Alexander Butlerov, Carl Gustaf Mosander, and Richard R. Schrock.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, John Pople ranks 100. Before him are Hugo Koblet, Sammy Davis Jr., Martin Rodbell, Honor Blackman, Uzi Narkiss, and Tofiq Bahramov. After him are Georges Delerue, Ernesto Cardenal, Muhammad ibn al-Uthaymeen, Lepa Radić, Robert Hardy, and Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen. Among people deceased in 2004, John Pople ranks 59. Before him are Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, José López Portillo y Pacheco, Sacha Distel, Carlos Lacoste, Nikolai Chernykh, and Matthäus Hetzenauer. After him are Philip Abelson, Saizo Saito, Johnny Ramone, John Charles, Roque Máspoli, and Marika Rökk.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Pople ranks 1,129 out of 8,785. Before him are Taron Egerton (1989), Elizabeth Siddal (1829), Flinders Petrie (1853), Leopold Stokowski (1882), John Schlesinger (1926), and Alexander II of Scotland (1198). After him are Idris Elba (1972), Harold Lowe (1882), Vita Sackville-West (1892), John Stewart Bell (1928), Gareth Jones (1905), and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689).

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Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, John Pople ranks 37. Before him are Thomas Graham (1805), Ida Noddack (1896), Michael Smith (1932), Peter D. Mitchell (1920), William Henry Perkin (1838), and William Henry (1774). After him are Smithson Tennant (1761), Martin Lowry (1874), William Prout (1785), Frederick Abel (1827), Edward Frankland (1825), and M. Stanley Whittingham (1941).

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