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Snow, C.P. (Charles Percy), Baron

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Snow, C.P. (Charles Percy), Baron (1905–80) English novelist, scientist, and civil servant. He is especially celebrated for his lecture The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution (1959), which diagnosed a radical divide between scientists and literary intellectuals, and for his 11-volume novel sequence, known collectively as Strangers and Brothers (1940–70), which includes The Corridors of Power (1963).

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