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C. P. Snow
Sign in to saveAlso known as Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow, Charles Percy Snow, Lord Snow, Baron Snow of Leicester
English novelist and physical chemist (1905–1980)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 15 October 1905
- Died
- 1 July 1980
- Works
- 202
Top works
- Time of Hope
- variety of men
- Corridors of Power
- Coat of Varnish
- The Affair
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1914-05-09
- Active to
- 1999-12-20
Discography
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,795x
- Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,659x
- Framing Processes and Social Movements: An Overview and Assessment
· 2000 · cited 6,223x
- Frame Alignment Processes, Micromobilization, and Movement Participation
· 1986 · cited 3,760x
- Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger<sup>*</sup>
· 2017 · cited 3,666x
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Quotes
- “The official world, the corridors of power.”
- “When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find that far more, and far more hideous, crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.”
- “There are no secrets in science.”
- “I believe the intellectual life of the whole of western society is increasingly being split into two polar groups ... Literary intellectuals at one pole—at the other scientists, and as the most representative, the physical scientists. Between the two a gulf of mutual incomprehension.”
- “Two polar groups: at one pole we have the literary intellectuals, at the other scientists, and as the most representative, the physical scientists. Between the two a gulf of mutual incomprehension.”
- “I was searching for something a little more than a dashing metaphor, a good deal less than a cultural map: and for those purposes the two cultures is about right.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Charles Percy Snow , ( 1905-10-15 ) 15 October 1905, Leicester , England
- Died
- 1 July 1980 (1980-07-01) (aged 74), London, England
- Education
- Alderman Newton's School
- Alma mater
- University College, Leicester University of Cambridge (PhD)
- Known for
- Strangers and Brothers The Two Cultures Corridors of Power
- Spouses
- Pamela Hansford Johnson ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1950 )
- Fields
- Physics, chemistry, literature (novelist)
- Institutions
- University of Cambridge English Electric Civil Service
- Thesis
- The Structure of Simple Molecules (1930)
- Doctoral students
- Eric Eastwood
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Encyclopedic overview
Lord Snow of Leicester was born at 40 Richmond Road Leicester. This plaque is displayed opposite his birthplace.
Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow (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. 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 between scientists and "literary intellectuals".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “C. P. Snow” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.