The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution after 50 years

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THE SPLIT BETWEEN SCIENTISTS AND WRITERS
By Sam LeithPublished: May 9 2009 01:24 | Last updated: May 9 2009 01:24
Fifty years ago this week, at the Senate House in Cambridge, CP Snow delivered what was to become one of the most influential single lectures of the past century. Charles Percy Snow, later to be Lord Snow, was then 53. As a young man he had worked as a research chemist. He went on to hold senior positions in the civil service, a directorship of the English Electric Company, and was a bestselling novelist. He was on the way to taking his eventual place as a well-known wise, or speechifying, head in public life.
In the Rede Lecture he was addressing his peers. The lecture series, one of Cambridge’s most prestigious public events, dates from the 16th century and the list of previous lecturers included Matthew Arnold, TH Huxley, EM Forster, John Ruskin and Max Beerbohm. Snow, as both a literary man and sometime scientist, was as he saw it ideally positioned to address his topic. He called his lecture “The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution”.
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