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C.P. Snow The Two Cultures 1959

Charles Percy Snow, Baron (b. Oct. 15, 1905, Leicester, Eng.), British novelist, scientist, and government administrator. A graduate of Leicester University, Snow earned a doctorate in physics at Cambridge, where, at the age of 25, he became a fellow of Christ’s College. After working at Cambridge in molecular physics for some 20 years, he became a university administrator and, with the outbreak of World War II, became a scientific adviser to the British government. He was knighted in 1957 and made a fife peer in 1964. In 1950 he married the British novelist Pamela Hansford Johnson. After…

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