# C. P. Snow **Entity class:** Novelist, physical chemist, and civil servant **Full name:** Charles Percy Snow ## Definition **C. P. Snow** is the origin point for the modern “two cultures” diagnosis. His 1959 Rede Lecture argued that literary intellectuals and scientists had become mutually unintelligible communities, with consequences for education, public policy, and the use of knowledge. ## Relationships - **key work:** _The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution_ (1959). - **concept:** [[wiki/Two Cultures|Two Cultures]]. - **institutional response:** [[wiki/Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement|Dartmouth ICE]] and [[wiki/Convergence Research|Convergence Research]]. - **disambiguation route:** [[wiki/ICE|ICE disambiguation]]. ## Sources / Provenance - C. P. Snow, _The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution_ (Cambridge University Press, 1959). - [Encyclopaedia Britannica — C. P. Snow](https://www.britannica.com/biography/C-P-Snow)