John A. Pople : The Origin of PPP Theory. Int. J. Quant. Chem, 37, 349-354 (1990). John A. Pople : List of Publications 1950-1989. Int. J. Quant. Chem, 37, 355-371 (1990).

John A. Pople : Electron Interaction in Unsaturated Hydrocarbons.      Trans. Faraday Soc. 49, 1375-1385 (1953).

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For a finely differentiating and very thoughtful comment on the Nobel Prize of 1998 (Pople/Kohn, DFT) you should read the following article by Kutzelnigg. It is unfortunately still in German. To really esteem the article get hold of a person who understands German fairly well and listen to the subtle sounds!Click here!

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Int. J. Quant. Chem., 38, 354 (1990).

John A. Pople was born in Burnham, Somerset, England in 1925. He received his undergraduate and graduate education at Cambridge University where he was a pupil of Sir John Lennard-Jones. Subsequently, he was a

• fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge (1951—1958),
• Lecturer in Mathematics at Cambridge (1954—1958), and then
• Superintendent of the Basic Physics Division of the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington (1958—1964).
• Since 1964, he has been Carnegie Professor of Chemical Physics at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
• and is presertly {1990} John Christian Warner Professor of Natural Sciences.

Dr. Pople is a theoretical chemist who has worked on molecular applications of quantum and statistical mechanics. He is the author of a number of papers on liquid structure, spectroscopy (particularly nucelar magnetic resonance), and molecular orbital theory. He is part author of three books on high nuclear magnetic resonance and molecular orbital theory.

His awards include

• the Smith Prize (Cambridge, 1950),
• the Marlow Medal (Faraday Society, 1958),
• the Irving Langmuir Award (American Chemical Society, 1970),
• the Harrison Howe Award (American Chemical Society, 1971),
• the Gilbert Newton Lewis Award (American Chemical Society, 1973),
• the Pittsburgh Award (American Chemical Society, 1975),
• the Morley Award (American Chemical Society, 1976),
• the Pauling Award (American Chemical Society, 1977),
• the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Senior U.S. Scientist Award (1981),
• the G. Willard Wheland Award (University of Chicago, 1981),
• he Evans Award (Ohio State University, 1982),
• the Oesper Award (University of Cincinnati, 1984), and
• the Davy Medal (Royal Society, 1988).

He is a fellow of

• the Royal Society of London (1961),
• Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1971), and
• a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1980).

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