C.P. Snow (1905–1980)
Autor/a de The Two Cultures and a Second Look: An Expanded Version of the Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution
Sobre l'autor
C. P. Snow was born on October 15, 1905 in Leicester, England. He graduated from Leicester University and received a doctorate in physics at the University of Cambridge. After working at Cambridge in molecular physics for about 20 years, he became a university administrator. During World War II, he mostra'n més was a scientific adviser to the British government. He was knighted in 1957 and created a Baron in the life peerage in 1964. He wrote an 11-volume novel sequence collectively called Strangers and Brothers, which was published between 1940 and 1970. His other works of fiction include Death Under Sail, In Their Wisdom, and A Coat of Varnish. He also wrote several non-fiction works including The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, Public Affairs, Trollope: His Life and Art, and The Realists: Eight Portraits. He died on July 1, 1980 at the age of 74. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
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Obres de C.P. Snow
The Two Cultures and a Second Look: An Expanded Version of the Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution (1961) 756 exemplars
Strangers and Brothers {Volume 1: Time of Hope; George Passant; The Conscience of the Rich; The Light and the Dark} (1972) — Autor — 133 exemplars
Strangers and Brothers {Volume 2: The Masters; The New Men; Homecomings; The Affair} (1972) — Autor — 90 exemplars
Strangers and Brothers {Volume 3: Corridors of Power; The Sleep of Reason; Last Things} (1971) 79 exemplars
Einstein 2 exemplars
New Lives for Old 1 exemplars
The Masters {abridged} — Autor — 1 exemplars
Richard Aldington 1 exemplars
The Affair (Playbill) [Vol 6 No 38] 1 exemplars
Thé Masters 1 exemplars
The Other Side of the River: Red China Today 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Evergreen Review. Vol.5 No 17. Mar-April 1961 by Rosset, Barney (1961) — Col·laborador — 7 exemplars
Die zwei Kulturen : literarische und naturwissenschaftliche Intelligenz ; C. P. Snows These in der Diskussion (1967) — Col·laborador — 6 exemplars
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- Nom oficial
- Snow, Charles Percy
- Altres noms
- Baron Snow of the City of Leicester
- Data de naixement
- 1905-10-15
- Data de defunció
- 1980-07-01
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- Engeland, Groot-Brittannië
UK - Lloc de naixement
- Leicester, England, UK
- Lloc de defunció
- London, England, UK
- Llocs de residència
- Cambridge, England, UK
London, England, UK - Educació
- University of Cambridge (Christ's College)
University of Leicester - Professions
- physicist
writer
civil servant - Relacions
- Johnson, Pamela Hansford (spouse)
Snow, Philip (brother) - Premis i honors
- CBE
Life Peerage, 1965
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary ∙ Literature ∙ 1961) - Nota de desambiguació
- Do not combine this page with that of Charles Percy, who is a different person entirely. Thanks.
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- Obres
- 40
- També de
- 11
- Membres
- 5,588
- Popularitat
- #4,444
- Valoració
- 3.7
- Ressenyes
- 87
- ISBN
- 219
- Llengües
- 15
- Preferit
- 10