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C.P. Snow
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(Charles Percy Snow, 1905–80, kt 1957, baron 1964) Novelist whose wide-ranging experience of university life, the civil service and politics provided the material for his sequence of novels entitled Strangers and Brothers (1940–70). The best known of them is The Masters (1951), about political intrigue among the fellows of a Cambridge college electing a new master (Snow was a fellow of Christ's). He entered the real *corridors of power (a phrase popularized by him) when he joined the House of Lords in 1964 and became a parliamentary secretary in the new Ministry of Technology. His own academic subject was physics; in his Rede lectures of 1959 he coined the phrase 'the two cultures' to express the deep 20C gulf between those trained in the sciences and the arts. He married in 1950 the novelist Pamela Hansford Johnson (1912–81).
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