| Authorised form of name | Longuet-Higgins; Hugh Christopher (1923 - 2004) |
| Other forms of name | Hugh Christopher Longuet- |
| Other forms of surname | Higgins |
| Dates | 1923 - 2004 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Lenham, Kent, England |
| Date of birth | 11/04/1923 |
| Place of death | Brighton, East Sussex |
| Date of death | 27/03/2004 |
| Occupation | Theoretical Chemist and Cognitive Scientist |
| Activity | Education:
Pilgrims' School, Winchester (1932); Winchester College (1935); Balliol College Oxford (music and chemistry, 1941); PhD, Balliol College, Oxford
Career:
Research Fellow, Balliol College, Oxford (1946-1948); University of Chicago; Lecturer and Reader in Theoretical Chemistry, Manchester University (1949-1952); Professor of Theoretical Physics, King's College London (1952-1954); John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Theoretical Chemistry, University of Cambridge (1954-1967); Fellow, Corpus Christi College (1954-1967), Life Fellow (1968-2004); Warden, Leckhampton House; Editor, Molecular Physics (1958-1961); Royal Society Research Professor, Edinburgh University, Department of Machine Intelligence and Perception (now part of School of Informatics) (1968-1974), founded School of Epistemics with Jimmy Thorne; Royal Society Research Professor, Department of Experimental Psychology, Sussex University (1974-1988), Emeritus, founder of Institute of Cognitive and Information Science, Director (1984-1986); Governor of the BBC (1979-1984); Foreign Associate, US Academy of Sciences (1968); Fellow, Royal Society of Arts (1970); Honorary doctorates from universities of York, Essex, Bristol, Sussex and Sheffield |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 20/03/1958 |
| Age at election | 34 |
| Relationships | Son of Reverend Henry Longuet-Higgins and Albinia Bazeley; brother of Michael Selwyn Longuet-Higgins FRS |
| Source | Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2006 vol 52 pp 149-166, plate, by Richard L Gregory and John N Murrell
Obituaries in The Independent (22 April 2004); The Times (22 April 2004); The Guardian (10 June 2004) |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/23458745 |
| Code | NA5980 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1958/17 | Longuet-Higgins, Hugh Christopher: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| RR/68/432 | Referee's report by Douglas Rayner Hartree, on a paper 'The normal vibrations of bridge X2 Y6 molecules' by Ronald Percy Bell and Hugh Christopher Longuet-Higgins | nd [1944] |
| RR/68/431 | Letter from Douglas Rayner Hartree, regarding a paper 'The normal vibrations of bridge X2 Y6 molecules' by Ronald Percy Bell and Hugh Christopher Longuet-Higgins | 13 May 1944 |
| RR/69/22 | Referee's report by Arthur John Allmand, on a paper 'Kinetics of the base-catalysed bromination of diethyl malonate' by Ronald Percy Bell, Douglas Hugh Everett and Hugh Christopher Longuet-Higgins | 1945 |
| RR/70/66 | Referee's report by John Edward Lennard-Jones, on a paper 'The electronic structure of conjugated systems I. General theory' by Charles Alfred Coulson and Hugh Christopher Longuet-Higgins | 17 April 1947 |
| RR/70/69 | Referee's report by John Edward Lennard-Jones, on a paper 'The electronic structure of conjugated systems. Parts III and IV' by Charles Alfred Coulson and Hugh Christopher Longuet-Higgins | 1947 |
| RR/71/76 | Referee's report by John Edward Lennard-Jones, on a paper 'The electronic structure of conjugated systems V. The interaction of two conjugated systems' by Charles Alfred Coulson and Hugh Christopher Longuet-Higgins | 28 May 1948 |
| IM/002801 | Longuet-Higgins, Hugh Christopher | 1973 |
| RR/70/67 | Referee's report by John Edward Lennard-Jones, on a paper 'The electronic structure of conjugated systems II. Unsaturated hydrocarbons and their hetero-derivatives' by Charles Alfred Coulson and Hugh Christopher Longuet-Higgins | 1947 |
| RR/75/76 | Referee's report by Dudley Maurice Newitt, on a paper 'Application of the theory of conformal solutions to the system carbon dioxide-ethylene' by D Cook and Hugh Christopher Longuet-Higgins | 28 May 1951 |
| RR/75/317 | Referee's report by Charles Alfred Coulson, on a paper 'Coriolis interaction between vibration and rotation in symmetric top molecules' by D R J Boyd and Hugh Christopher Longuet-Higgins | 10 December 1951 |
| RR/75/262 | Referee's report by Douglas Rayner Hartree, on a paper 'The correspondence between the resonance and molecular orbital theories' by Michael James Stewart Dewar and Hugh Christopher Longuet-Higgins | 12 October 1951 |
| RR/75/263 | Referee's report by William George Penney, on a paper 'The correspondence between the resonance and molecular orbital theories' by Michael James Stewart Dewar and Hugh Christopher Longuet-Higgins | 2 November 1951 |
| RR/73/179 | Referee's report by Edward Armand Guggenheim, on a paper 'The statistical thermodynamics of multicomponent systems' by Hugh Christopher Longuet-Higgins | 29 August 1950 |
| RR/75/264 | Letter from Meredith Gwynne Evans, on a paper 'The correspondence between the resonance and molecular orbital theories' by Michael James Stewart Dewar and Hugh Christopher Longuet-Higgins, to D C Martin | 19 February 1951 |