Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow of the City of Leicester CBE (15 October 1905 - 1 July 1980) was an English chemist and novelist who also served in several important positions in the British Civil Service and briefly in the UK government.[1] 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"