Sir John Anthony Pople

Sir John Anthony Pople , 1925-2004, British computational chemist. Trained as a mathematician at Cambridge (B.A. 1946, Ph.D. 1951), he worked at Cambridge (1951-58) and England's National Physical Laboratory (1958-64) then lived in the United States where he taught at Carnegie-Mellon Univ. (1964-93) and Northwestern Univ. (1993-2004). During the 1960s he first developed a computer program that modeled the properties and activity of molecules in chemical reactions, and in 1970 the Gaussian-70 computational chemistry program was published. Pople shared the 1998 Nobel Prize in chemistry with Walter Kohn for the development of methods that permit chemists to analyze theoretically the properties of molecules and chemical reactions. He was knighted in 2003.

Quayle, Sir (John) Anthony (1913–89), English actor and director. He made his first appearance on the stage in London in 1931, and soon gave proof of solid qualities, notably during several seasons with the Old Vic, where he played a wide variety of parts including John Tanner in Shaw's Man and Superman (1938). He was first seen in New York in 1936 in Wycherley's The Country Wife. After six years in the army during the Second World War he returned to the theatre as Jack Absolute in Sheridan's The Rivals (1945), also directing a dramatization of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment (1946) starring John Gielgud and Edith Evans. In 1948 he succeeded Barry Jackson as Director of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, where he directed a number of plays and also appeared as Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew in 1948, Falstaff in both parts of Henry IV in 1951 and The Merry Wives of Windsor in 1955, Coriolanus in 1952, and Othello in 1954. In 1956 he played the title-role in Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great in New York, and shortly afterwards left Stratford to appear in London in a succession of non-classical parts which included Eddie in Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge (1956), James Tyrone in O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night (1958), which he also directed, Marcel Blanchard in Coward's Look after Lulu (1959), and Cesareo Grimaldi in Billetdoux's Chin-Chin (1960). After his Sir Charles Dilke in Bradley-Dyne's The Right Honourable Gentleman (1964) he was seen in New York in the title-role of Brecht's Galileo and in Ustinov's Halfway up the Tree (both 1967), and in 1970 he returned there as Andrew Wyke in Anthony Shaffer's Sleuth after playing the part in London. He directed Simon Gray's adaptation of Dostoevsky's The Idiot for the National Theatre in the same year. In 1976 he partnered Peggy Ashcroft in Arbuzov's two-character play Old World, repeating the role in New York in 1978. In the same year he directed and appeared in The Rivals and also played Lear for the Prospect Theatre Company at the Old Vic; and in 1983 he founded the Compass touring company, usually playing the leading roles himself, including Lear again in 1987.