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"The Two Cultures" [1] is the first part of an influential 1959 Rede Lecture by British scientist and novelist C. P. Snow, which was published in book form as The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution the same year.
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 [1]) 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.
Leavis vigorously attacked Snow's suggestion, from a 1959 lecture and book by C. P. Snow (see The Two Cultures), that practitioners of the scientific and humanistic disciplines should have some significant understanding of each other, and that a lack of knowledge of 20th century physics was comparable to an ignorance of Shakespeare. [22]
The Two Cultures, by C. P. Snow, introduction by Stefan Collini (1993) Matthew Arnold: A Critical Portrait (1994) English Pasts: Essays in History and Culture (1999) "'No Bullshit' Bullshit." London Review of Books. 23 January 2003. (accessed 29 October 2009). Absent Minds: Intellectuals in Britain (2006) Common Reading: Critics, Historians ...
Strangers and Brothers is a series of novels by C. P. Snow, published between 1940 and 1970. They deal with – among other things – questions of political and personal integrity , and the mechanics of exercising power.
John Brockman has continued the themes of 'The Third Culture' in the website of the Edge Foundation, where leading scientists and thinkers contribute their thoughts in plain English. The title of the book refers to C. P. Snow 's 1959 work The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution , which described the conflict between the cultures of the ...
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Charles Snow may refer to: Charles E. Snow (1910–1967), American anthropologist; Charles Wilbert Snow (1884–1977), American politician; C. P. Snow (Charles Percy Snow, 1905–1980), English physicist and novelist