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C.P. Snow
Writing
15 Oct 1905
† 01 Jul 1980
Leicester, Leicestershire, England, UK
Biography
English realist writer, physicist, chemist and statesman. Knight Bachelor, Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Snow was educated at the College of Leicestershire and Rutland in his native Leicester, after which he graduated from Cambridge University, where since 1930, having received at 25 the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (for work on spectroscopy), he taught at the College of Christ. However, his scientific and literary activities were interrupted by the appointment of a government ...
Also Known As
Charles Percy "C. P." Snow,, Baron Snow, Charles Snow, Чарльз Перси, Барон Сноу

