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Sir John Anthony Pople, KBE FRS 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.



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✵ 31. October 1925 – 15. March 2004
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John Pople Quotes

“Sometimes one can improve the theories in the sense of discovering a quicker, more efficient way of doing a given calculation.”

describing his discoveries in Density functional theory, December 29, 1995, in an interview with [István Hargittai, Magdolna Hargittai, Candid science: conversations with famous chemists, Volume 1 of Candid science, Imperial College Press, 2000, 1860942288, 180]

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