John Pople Scientist Quotations

My contribution to quantum chemistry has depended hugely on work by others. The international community in our field is a close one.

I found a discarded textbook on calculus in a wastebasket and read it from cover to cover.

Like many other Laureates, I have benefit immeasurably from the love and support of my wife and children.

I had to leave Cambridge and take up industrial employment for a period. This was with the Bristol Aeroplane Company. There was little to do there.

I developed an interest in nuclear magnetic resonance, which was then emerging as a powerful technique for studying molecular structure.

I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the more modern branches of pure mathematics.