Charles Percy Snow Baron Snow CBE 15 October 1905 – 1 July 1980 was an English novelist and physical chemist who also served in several important positions in the British Civil Service and briefly in the UK government He is best known for his series of novels known collectively as Strangers and Brothers and for The Two Cultures a 1959 Charles Percy Snow Baron Snow CBE 15 October 1905 – 1 July 1980 was an English novelist and physical chemist who also served in several important positions in the British Civil Service and briefly in the UK government 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