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. Wikipedia
Born: October 31, 1925, Burnham-on-Sea, United Kingdom
Died: March 15, 2004 (age 78 years), Chicago, IL
Education: University of Cambridge (1947–1951), Trinity College (1943–1945), and Bristol Grammar School (1936–1943)
Awards: Mayhew Prize (1948), Fellow of the Royal Society (1961), Irving Langmuir Award (1970), and more
Doctoral students: A. David Buckingham; Martin Head-Gordon; Krishnan Raghavachari;
Thesis: Lone Pair Electrons (1951)