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John Pople, born as John Anthony Pople, was a mathematician, chemist, and physicist from the United Kingdom. He was born on October 31, 1925, in Burnham-on-Sea, and died on March 15, 2004, in Chicago.
Pople was educated at Bristol Grammar School and the University of Cambridge. He also attended Trinity College, Cambridge, where his doctoral advisor was John Lennard-Jones. A. David Buckingham and Krishnan Raghavachari were among Pople's doctoral students.
He is known for his work on computational methods in quantum chemistry and as the author of Gaussian, a software program for computational chemistry. Pople's contributions to the field were recognized with numerous awards, including the 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the Copley Medal, the 1988 Davy Medal, and the 1970 Irving Langmuir Award.
