Awards & Winners

John Pople

Date of Birth 31-October-1925
Place of Birth Burnham-on-Sea
(United Kingdom)
Nationality United Kingdom
Profession Chemist
Sir John Anthony Pople, KBE FRS was a Nobel-Prize winning theoretical chemist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Walter Kohn in the year 1998. He was born in Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, England and attended the Bristol Grammar School. He won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1943. He received his B. A. in 1946. Between 1945 and 1947 he worked at the Bristol Aeroplane Company. He then returned to Cambridge University and was awarded his doctorate degree in mathematics in 1951. He moved to the United States of America in 1964, where he lived the rest of his life, though he retained British citizenship. Pople considered himself more of a mathematician than a chemist, but theoretical chemists consider him one of the most important of their number.

Awards by John Pople

Check all the awards nominated and won by John Pople.

2002


Copley Medal
(For his development of computational methods in quantum chemistry. His work transformed density functional theory into a powerful theoretical tool for chemistry, chemical physics and biology.)

1998


Nobel Prize in Chemistry
(for his development of computational methods in quantum chemistry)

1992


Wolf Prize in Chemistry
(For his outstanding contributions to Theoretical Chemistry, particularly in developing effective and widely used modern quantum - chemical methods.)