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way of finding out is to buy the roll, take it home, and play it on the pianola. Within seconds your ears have told you what your eyes were quite unable to make out—that you are now the proud possessor of a piano arrangement of "
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Intelligence and Musical Cognition ".
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Longuet-Higgins, H. C. (1979). "Review Lecture: The Perception of Music".
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1172:"CLH - Christopher Longuet-Higgins Papers"
1020:Longuet-Higgins, Hugh Christopher (1947).
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851:Gregory, R. L.; Murrell, J. N. (2006).
794:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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1191:"Hierarchy of Longuet-Higgins' works"
1030:(DPhil thesis). University of Oxford.
803:10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.111967
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1041:Venn Cambridge University database
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1410:Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford
727:Relaxation and its role in vision
725:Hinton, Geoffrey Everest (1977).
431:Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
1480:John Humphrey Plummer Professors
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268:Hugh Christopher Longuet-Higgins
61:Hugh Christopher Longuet-Higgins
995:Journal of the Chemical Society
829:Chemical & Engineering News
651:"Peter Higgs: Curriculum Vitae"
1130:Longuet-Higgins, H.C. (1963).
891:Darwin, Chris (10 June 2004).
460:to co-found the Department of
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433:. He was the first warden of
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1371:UK public library membership
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556:National Academy of Sciences
506:Philosophical Transactions A
487:. In 1981 he introduced the
421:, and in 1954 was appointed
132:Naylor Prize and Lectureship
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776:Christopher Longuet-Higgins
655:The University of Edinburgh
578:. He was a governor of the
576:London Mathematical Society
552:Fellow of the Royal Society
520:Longuet-Higgins (1979): —
252:Other notable students
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309:Education and early life
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458:University of Edinburgh
454:artificial intelligence
443:Woodward-Hoffmann rules
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562:(FRSE) in 1969, and a
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825:"Richard F. W. Bader"
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587:Longuet-Higgins Prize
497:eight-point algorithm
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419:King's College London
411:University of Chicago
407:postdoctoral research
285:Theoretical Chemistry
154:University of Chicago
150:King's College London
1465:Cognitive musicology
1460:Theoretical chemists
1046:14 June 2010 at the
1007:10.1039/JR9430000250
960:Gregory, R. (2006).
462:Machine intelligence
391:University of Oxford
387:Doctor of Philosophy
327:The Pilgrims' School
170:University of Sussex
116:University of Oxford
1264:1979RSPSB.205..307L
1221:1994RSPTA.349..103L
1178:. The Royal Society
1148:1963MolPh...6..445L
1117:10.1021/ja01087a033
1073:1958RSPSA.244....1L
931:2005MolPh.103..141.
582:from 1979 to 1984.
401:Career and research
379:valence bond theory
1475:People from Lenham
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546:Honours and awards
447:molecular symmetry
429:, and a Fellow of
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335:Winchester College
106:Winchester College
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1136:Molecular Physics
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477:Sussex University
435:Leckhampton House
385:. He completed a
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