Person Pople; Sir; John Anthony (1925 - 2004) Pople John Anthony Sir 1925 - 2004 Male Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset 31/10/1925 19251031 15/03/2004 20040315

Mathematician; Quantum Chemist; 'The English father of computational chemistry', pioneereed the use of computers to model the behaviour of atoms and molecules. Education: State scholarship to Bristol Grammar School; Trinity College Cambridge (1943-1945, 1947-1951 where he was taught by Paul Dirac, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics) Career: A theoretical mathematician who abondoned the study of chemistry at the age of 15, he also developed mahny of the algorithms which made computational chemistry possible, developing one of the first programmes, Gaussian, which, despite developing it and making it famous, the current owners of the programme banned him, and other reserchers, from using it in his last decade. Bristol Aeroplane Company; Research Fellow, Lecturer, Trinity College, Cambridge (1954-1958); National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada (Summer 1956 and Summer 1957); Head of Basic Physics division, National Physical Laboratory (1958-1964); sabbatical year in USA; Professor of Chemical Physics, Carnegie Insitute of Technology, Pittsburgh known from 1967 as Carnegie Mellon University (1964-1993); Professor,Northwestern University (1986), full member of faculty (1993); Marlow Medal of the Faraday Society(1958); Irving Langmuir Award (1970); Harrrison Howe Award (1971); Gilbert Nerton Lewis Award (1977); Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1971); Corresponding Member of Australian Academy of Sciences (1993) Medals and prizes: Nobel Prize (Chemistry) 1998 Honours: KBE 2003 Married (1952) Joy Bowers Medals and prizes: Davy Medal 1988; Copley Medal 2002 Fellow 16/03/1961 35 Obituaries: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2006 vol 52 pp 299-314, plate, by A D Buckingham Obituaries in The Guardian (19 March 2004); The Telegraph (19 March 2004), The Times (24 March 2004) ©Godfrey Argent Studio International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 https://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-20933 31 Oct 1925 - 15 Mar 2004 NA4670 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes http://viaf.org/viaf/165426241 d3ae9ae4-78fb-4b19-b714-b3788ec4cae4