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Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow CBE (15 October 1905–1 July 1980) was an English physicist and novelist, who also served several important positions in the UK government.[1] He is perhaps best known for a 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"[2].
[edit] LifeBorn in Leicester, Snow was educated at the Leicestershire and Rutland College, now the University of Leicester, and the University of Cambridge, where he became a Fellow of Christ's College in 1930. He served several senior positions in the government of the United Kingdom: as technical director of the Ministry of Labour from 1940 to 1944; as civil service commissioner from 1945 to 1960; and as parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Technology from 1964 to 1966.[1] He was knighted in 1957 and made a life peer, as Baron Snow, of the City of Leicester in 1964.[1] Snow married the novelist Pamela Hansford Johnson in 1950. They had one son. Friends included the mathematician G. H. Hardy, for whom he would write a brief biographical foreword in A Mathematician's Apology, the physicist P.M.S. Blackett, the X-ray crystallographer J. D. Bernal and the cultural historian Jacques Barzun.[3] For the academic year 1961 to 1962, Lord and Lady Snow served as Fellows on the faculty at the Center for Advanced Studies at Wesleyan University.[4] [edit] Literary workSnow's first novel was the whodunit Death under Sail (1932). He also wrote a biography of Anthony Trollope. However, he is much better known as the author of a sequence of novels entitled Strangers and Brothers depicting intellectuals in academic and government settings in the modern era. The Masters is the best known novel of the sequence and deals with the internal politics of a Cambridge college as it prepared to elect a new master. It has all the appeal of being an insider’s view and it reveals how concerns other than the strictly academic influence the decisions of supposedly objective scholars. The Masters and The New Men were jointly awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1954.[5] Corridors of Power added a phrase to the language of the day. In The Realists, an examination of the work of eight novelists — Stendhal, Honoré de Balzac, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Benito Pérez Galdós, Henry James and Marcel Proust — Snow makes a robust defence of the realistic novel. [edit] "The Two Cultures"On 7 May 1959, Snow delivered an influential Rede Lecture called The Two Cultures, which provoked "widespread and heated debate".[1] Subsequently published as The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, the lecture argued that the breakdown of communication between the "two cultures" of modern society — the sciences and the humanities — was a major hindrance to solving the world's problems. In particular, Snow argues that the quality of education in the world is on the decline. For example, many scientists have never read Charles Dickens, but artistic intellectuals are equally non-conversant with science. He wrote:
The satirists Flanders and Swann utilised the first part of this quotation as the basis for their short monologue and song "First and Second Law". [edit] Works[edit] FictionStrangers and Brothers Sequence
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