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| Variety of Men | | | Author:
| Snow, C. P. | | Read by:
| MacDonald, John | | ISBN: | 978-0-7366-0449-9 | | Publication Date: | Jan 1985 | | Publisher: | Books on Tape, Incorporated
| | Book Format: | Audio cassette | | List Price: | USD $48.00USD $9.95 |
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Snow, Charles Percy
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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 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.
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