Trinity College Quotes by John Pople

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• I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity…
• Leaving England was a painful decision, and we still have some regrets about it. However, at that time, the research environment for…
• Life with a scientist who is often changing jobs and is frequently away at meetings and on lecture tours is not easy.…
• I was a close observer of the developments in molecular biology.
• From an early age I was told that I was expected to do more than continue to run a small business. Education…
• Looking through the list of earlier Nobel laureates, I note a large number with whom I became acquainted and with whom I…
• I have had many opportunities to visit universities all over the world in the past 50 years.
• Our children were mostly brought up and educated in the Churchill suburb east of Pittsburgh. Each summer, we took them back to…
• I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some…
• On my return to Pittsburgh, I resolved to go back to the fundamental problems of electronic structure that I had contemplated abstractly…
• I am delighted to have had students, friends and colleagues in so many nations and to have learned so much of what…
• At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations…

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