biography
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Longuett-Higgins, (Hugh) Christopher
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pronunciation:
[longgee higinz]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1923– )
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| biography:
| Theoretical chemist and neuropsychologist, born in Lenham, Kent, SE England, UK. He studied at Oxford, and after university posts in the USA and London, he became professor of theoretical chemistry at Cambridge (1954–67), then professor at Edinburgh (1968–74), and at the Centre for Research in Perception and Cognition, Sussex (1974–88, emeritus 1989). He made contributions to theories of chemical bonding from the 1940s, but later worked on language acquisition, music perception, and speech analysis. |
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