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Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow, Kt CBE FRSL (15 October 1905 – 1 July 1980) was an English novelist and physical chemist who also served in several important positions in the British Civil Service and briefly in the UK government.
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Apr 9, 2024 · C.P. Snow (born Oct. 15, 1905, Leicester, Leicestershire, Eng.—died July 1, 1980, London) was a British novelist, scientist, and government administrator. Snow was graduated from Leicester University and earned a doctorate in physics at the University of Cambridge , where, at the age of 25, he became a fellow of Christ’s College.
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Subject. Science. Genre. Non-fiction. Published. 1959. Publisher. Oxford University Press. " The Two Cultures " [1] is the first part of an influential 1959 Rede Lecture by British scientist and novelist C. P. Snow, which was published in book form as The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution the same year.
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Sep 1, 2009 · A new column that examines the intersection between science and society provides an update on the historic essay. Earlier this summer marked the 50th anniversary of C. P. Snow’s famous “Two...
Abstract. This article considers the modern-day relevance of C.P. Snow’s ‘The Two Cultures’ while the author, Walter Massey, reflects upon his own personal journey through these two worlds, from his early life as a student of physics, to his current role as Chancellor of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
- Walter E. Massey
- 2019
On the 7 th of May 1959, in Cambridge University’s historic Senate House, the scientist and writer C.P. Snow delivered a speech that would leave a near-indelible impression on the intellectual consciousness of his generation.
Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow, was an English novelist and physical chemist who also served in several important positions in the British Civil Service and briefly in the UK government. He is best known for his series of novels known collectively as Strangers and Brothers, and for The Two Cultures, a 1959 lecture in which he laments the gulf ...
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