C. P. Snow

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English novelist and physical chemist (1905-1980)

United Kingdom WritersLived 1905 to 1980 · aged 74

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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.

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Lord Snow, of the city of Leicester, was born at 40 Richmond Road Leicester. This plaque is displayed opposite his birthplace.

Awards 6

1957knighthood

1954James Tait Black Memorial Prize

1943Commander of the Order of the British Empire

life peer

Knight Bachelor

Lenin Prize

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SpousePamela Hansford Johnson

Connected to C. 6

Axel von AmbesserAlso in Tod auf der Themse (1973)

Ada NeretnieceAlso in Death Under Sail (1976)

Jochen BusseAlso in Tod auf der Themse (1973)

Gerd BaltusAlso in Tod auf der Themse (1973)

Denis HealeyAlso won life peer

Radclyffe HallAlso won James Tait Black Memorial Prize

About this person

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 between scientists and "literary intellectuals".

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