C.P. Snow

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C.P. Snow: Facts & Related Content

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Born	October 15, 1905 • Leicester • England
Died	July 1, 1980 (aged 74) • London • England
Notable Works	“Second Look” • “Strangers and Brothers” • “The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution”
Notable Family Members	spouse Pamela Hansford Johnson
Subjects Of Study	literature • science • culture

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Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold

British critic

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens

British novelist

Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

British writer

English novelist Jane Austen

Jane Austen

English novelist

Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling

British writer

Wyndham Lewis

Wyndham Lewis

British artist and writer

Galsworthy, oil painting by Rudolf Sauter, 1923; in the University of Birmingham Library, England

John Galsworthy

British writer

Beerbohm, Sir Max

Max Beerbohm

British humorist

William Golding

William Golding

British novelist

Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard

British writer

V.S. Naipaul

V.S. Naipaul

Trinidadian-British writer

Kazuo Ishiguro

Kazuo Ishiguro

Japanese-British author

Doris Lessing

British writer

Anita Brookner

British author

Novelist Beryl Bainbridge

Beryl Bainbridge

English author

Gabriel Josipovici

British author

Arthur Morrison

British author

Charles Langbridge Morgan

British author and critic

Charles Edward Montague

English novelist and journalist

Sidney Colvin

English scholar

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Italian-born physicist Dr. Enrico Fermi draws a diagram at a blackboard with mathematical equations. circa 1950.

Physics and Natural Law

Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.

Faces of Science