Science and Government - Softcover

Snow, C. P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451610857 ISBN 13: 9780451610850

Publisher: Signet

Synopsis

Sir Charles tells the story, hitherto unpublished, of the bitter and damaging wartime enmity between two eminent British scientists both powerful in government. These men were Sir Henry Tizard, who saw to it that England led the world in the development of radar, and his unrelenting opponent F.A. Lindemann (Lord Cherwell), Winston Churchill's scientific advisor.

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About the Author

Charles Percy Snow (1905–1980) held several positions in the British Civil Service and was the author of many fiction and nonfiction books, most notably The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution.

Review

Reading these lively, erudite, witty, deeply informed lectures is to come away awestruck at the intellectual authority and the unique life experience as scientist, civil servant, academic and Cabinet minister, which made them possible. Snow's invaluable experiences in the corridors of power (a phrase he actually coined in a novel and which became so widespread that when he chose it as the title of another, he said he was surely entitled to self-plagiarize) inform every page. It is his novelist's knack for skilled narrative and illumination of character and incident that bring them to sparkling life, for all their undoubtedly weighty subject matter. (Martin Rubin Washington Times 2013-04-25)

Edition details

• Publisher: Signet
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0451610857
• ISBN 13: 9780451610850
• Binding: Paperback