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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 179,097 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). John Pople is the 222nd most popular chemist (down from 190th in 2019), the 965th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 920th in 2019) and the 30th 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 222 out of 509Before him are Osamu Shimomura, Kaoru Ishikawa, Jacques Dubochet, Leo Baekeland, Michael Smith, and Arieh Warshel. After him are Alfred G. Gilman, Herbert C. Brown, Franz Karl Achard, John Cornforth, Charles J. Pedersen, and Friedrich Sertürner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, John Pople ranks 84Before him are Leo Esaki, John DeLorean, Gabriele Amorth, Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen, José Freire Falcão, and Charles Chaplin Jr.. After him are Willi Herold, Gabriele Ferzetti, Paul Greengard, Honor Blackman, Oscar Peterson, and Toshio Iwatani. Among people deceased in 2004, John Pople ranks 44Before him are Julius Axelrod, Andriyan Nikolayev, Edward B. Lewis, Theo van Gogh, Arthur Hailey, and Norberto Bobbio. After him are Herbert C. Brown, Julia Child, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Otto Kumm, José López Portillo y Pacheco, and Elmer Bernstein.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Pople ranks 965 out of 7,765Before him are Duncan Edwards (1936), Reginald Pole (1500), Princess Muna al-Hussein (1941), Prince Philippe, Duke of Orléans (1869), Eugen d'Albert (1864), and Robbie Williams (1974). After him are Edward Kelley (1555), Harold Lowe (1882), John Dunstaple (1390), Slash (1965), Ian Curtis (1956), and Herbert C. Brown (1912).

Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, John Pople ranks 30Before him are Peter D. Mitchell (1920), William Henry Perkin (1838), Alexander R. Todd (1907), Ronald George Wreyford Norrish (1897), Derek Barton (1918), and Michael Smith (1932). After him are Herbert C. Brown (1912), William Hyde Wollaston (1766), John E. Walker (1941), Ida Noddack (1896), Thomas Graham (1805), and Geoffrey Wilkinson (1921).