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I was a close observer of the developments in molecular biology.
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Biology
Development
Molecular Biology
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Developments
Molecular
Observer
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I found a discarded textbook on calculus in a wastebasket and read it from cover to cover.
John Pople / Chemist
Calculus
Discarded
Cover
Textbook
Wastebasket
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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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Opportunity
Past
Years
In The Past
Opportunities
Universities
Visit
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Like many other Laureates, I have benefit immeasurably from the love and support of my wife and children.
John Pople / Chemist
Love Wife Children
Benefit
Laureate
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I was approaching the age of 40 with a substantial publication record, but had not yet held any position in a chemistry department.
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Age
Chemistry
Records
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On my return to Pittsburgh, I resolved to go back to the fundamental problems of electronic structure that I had contemplated abstractly many years earlier.
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Fundamentals
Pittsburgh
Return
Structure
Years
Contemplated
Earlier
Electronic
Fundamental
Resolved
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Our children were mostly brought up and educated in the Churchill suburb east of Pittsburgh. Each summer, we took them back to England for an extended period.
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Children
East
England
Pittsburgh
Summer
Churchill
Extended
Mostly
Suburb
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From an early age I was told that I was expected to do more than continue to run a small business. Education was important and seen as a way of moving forward.
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Running
Expected
Important
Moving
Moving Forward
Small Business
Early Age
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I am delighted to have had students, friends and colleagues in so many nations and to have learned so much of what I know from them. This Nobel Award honours them all.
John Pople / Chemist
Friends
Awards
Colleagues
Delighted
Nations
Nobel
Students
Award
Honours
Learned
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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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Branches
Changed
Mathematician
Modern
Pure
Scientist
Follow
Increasingly
Longer
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Life with a scientist who is often changing jobs and is frequently away at meetings and on lecture tours is not easy. Without a secure home base, I could not have made much progress.
John Pople / Chemist
Jobs
Home
Easy
Home Base
Meetings
Progress
Scientist
Secure
Base
Tours
Frequently
Lecture
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At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book.
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Age
Algebra
Book
Class
Equations
Exposure
Fascinated
Intense
Simultaneous
Ahead
Read
Developed
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Looking through the list of earlier Nobel laureates, I note a large number with whom I became acquainted and with whom I interacted during those years as they passed through Cambridge.
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Cambridge
Lists
Nobel
Numbers
Years
Acquainted
Became
Earlier
Number
Large
Large Number
List
Note
Passed
Whom
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In the war, most young men were inducted into the armed forces at the age of 17. A group of students was permitted to attend university before taking part in wartime research projects.
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Age
Men
War
Armed Forces
Projects
Research
University
Wartime
Armed
Attend
Forces
Group
Permitted
Taking
Young Men
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Leaving England was a painful decision, and we still have some regrets about it. However, at that time, the research environment for theoretical chemistry was clearly better in the U.S.
John Pople / Chemist
Chemistry
Decision
England
Pain
Painful
Regret
Research
Theoretical
Clearly
Time Decision Better
Regrets
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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 College, received an award and entered the university in October 1943.
John Pople / Chemist
Abandoned
Awards
Cambridge
Chemistry
College
Examination
October
Physics
Scholarship
University
Mathematics Physics Chemistry
Award
Concentrate
Entered
Received
Travelled
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