Science and Government

Charles Percy Snow

Harvard University Press, 1961 - Biography & Autobiography - 88 pages

Examines the problem of how governments can most effectively make use of scientists, and tells the story of the wartime enmity between two powerful British scientists.

Contents

• Section 1: 1
• Section 2: 10
• Section 3: 84

About the author

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Science and Government; Volume 1960 of Godkin lectures at Harvard University, Mass Harvard University Cambridge; Godkin lectures; Harvard University Cambridge, Mass.: The Godkin lectures at Harvard University; Politik hinter verschlossenen Türen : Appendix / Snow; The Godkin Lectures on the essentials of Free Government and the Duties of the Citizen; [Mentor Books. no. MP444.]
• Author: Charles Percy Snow
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1961
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Jul 11, 2007
• ISBN: 0598267085, 9780598267085
• Length: 88 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Political; Political Science / Public Policy / Science & Technology Policy