Editing John Pople (section)

==Career==
After obtaining his PhD, he was a research fellow at [[Trinity College, Cambridge]] and then from 1954 a lecturer in the [[Faculty of Mathematics, University of Cambridge|mathematics faculty at Cambridge]]. In 1958, he moved to the [[National Physical Laboratory, UK|National Physical Laboratory]], near London as head of the new basics physics division. He moved to the United States of America in 1964, where he lived the rest of his life, though he retained British citizenship. Pople considered himself more of a mathematician than a chemist, but theoretical chemists consider him one of the most important of their number.<ref name=guardian>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/obituaries/story/0,3604,1172894,00.html|title=Obituary Sir John Pople|work=The Guardian|first=Pearce|last=Wright|date=19 March 2004}}</ref> In 1964 he moved to [[Carnegie Mellon University]] in [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]], where he had experienced a sabbatical in 1961 to 1962. In 1993 he moved to [[Northwestern University]] in [[Evanston, Illinois]], where he was Trustees Professor of Chemistry until his death.<ref>[http://www.gaussian.com/g_people/pople.htm#more John Pople Chronology at Gaussian.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100724203720/http://www.gaussian.com/g_people/pople.htm |date=24 July 2010 }}</ref>