"I had changed from being a mathematician to……" — John Pople
"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."
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15 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…
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Leaving England was a painful decision, and we still have some regrets about it. However, at that time, the research…
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Life with a scientist who is often changing jobs and is frequently away at meetings and on lecture tours is…
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I was a close observer of the developments in molecular biology.
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From an early age I was told that I was expected to do more than continue to run a small…
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Looking through the list of earlier Nobel laureates, I note a large number with whom I became acquainted and with…
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I have had many opportunities to visit universities all over the world in the past 50 years.
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Our children were mostly brought up and educated in the Churchill suburb east of Pittsburgh. Each summer, we took them…
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On my return to Pittsburgh, I resolved to go back to the fundamental problems of electronic structure that I had…
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I am delighted to have had students, friends and colleagues in so many nations and to have learned so much…
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At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by…
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In the war, most young men were inducted into the armed forces at the age of 17. A group of…
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