John Anthony Pople:
John Anthony Pople was an English theoretical chemist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
October 31, 1925 in Burnham on Sea, Somerset, England
Death:
March 15, 2004 in Chicago, Illinois
Claim to Fame:
Pople was an English theoretical chemist who developed a computer program called Gaussian to apply the formulas of quantum mechanics to predict chemical reactions. Gaussian found its way into laboratories and became a fast and useful tool to study quantum chemistry. His development of this program would earn him one half the 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
