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Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow, CBE (15 October 1905 – 1 July 1980) was an English physical chemist and novelist who also served in several important positions in the British Civil Service and briefly in the UK government.〔''The Columbia Encyclopedia'' (6th Edition, 2001–2005). "(Snow, C. P. )" Accessed 26 July 2007.〕 He is best known for his series of novels known collectively as ''Strangers and Brothers'', and for ''The Two Cultures'', a 1959 lecture in which he laments the gulf between scientists and "literary intellectuals". ==Life== Born in Leicester to William Snow, a church organist and choirmaster, and his wife Ada, Charles Snow was the second of four boys, his brothers being Harold, Eric and Philip Snow, and was educated at Alderman Newton's School, and at Leicestershire and Rutland College, now the University of Leicester, where he read chemistry for two years and proceeded to a master's degree in physics. From Leicester, Snow gained a scholarship to Christ's College, Cambridge, and gained his PhD in physics (Spectroscopy). In 1930 he became a Fellow of Christ's College. Snow served in several senior civil service positions: as technical director of the Ministry of Labour from 1940 to 1944, and as a civil service commissioner from 1945 to 1960. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1943 New Year Honours. Snow's was among the 2,300 names of prominent persons listed on the Nazis' Special Search List, of those who were to be arrested on the invasion of Great Britain and turned over to the Gestapo.〔''The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich'', William L. Shirer, Book Club Associates, 1971, page 784.〕 As a politician Snow was parliamentary secretary in the House of Lords to the Minister of Technology from 1964 to 1966 in the Labour government of Harold Wilson.〔 In the 1957 New Year Honours he was knighted, having the honour conferred by Queen Elizabeth II on 12 February, and was created a life peer, as Baron Snow, of the City of Leicester, on 29 October 1964.〔 Snow married the novelist Pamela Hansford Johnson in 1950; they had one son. Friends included the mathematician G. H. Hardy, for whom he would write a biographical foreword in ''A Mathematician's Apology'', the physicist P. M. S. Blackett, the X-ray crystallographer J. D. Bernal, and the cultural historian Jacques Barzun.〔C. P. Snow ''Christ's College Magazine'' 231, 67–69, (2006)〕 At Christ's he tutored H. S. Hoff – later better known as the novelist William Cooper. The two became friends, worked together in the civil service and wrote versions of each other into their novels: Snow was the model for the college dean, Robert, in Cooper's ''Scenes from Provincial Life'' sequence.〔Shrapnel, Norman. Obituary, William Cooper, ''The Guardian'', London, 7 September 2002.〕 In 1960, Snow gave the Godkin Lectures at Harvard University, about the clashes between Henry Tizard and F. Lindemann (later Lord Cherwell), both scientific advisors to British governments around the time of the Second World War. The lectures were subsequently published as ''Science and Government.'' For the academic year 1961 to 1962, Snow and his wife both served as Fellows on the faculty in the Center for Advanced Studies at Wesleyan University.〔(Recent Thoughts on the Two Cultures ), Wesleyan University〕〔(Guide to the Center for Advanced Studies Records, 1958–1969 ), Wesleyan University〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「C. P. Snow」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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