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==Early life and education== Born in [[Leicester]] to William Snow, a church organist and choirmaster, and his wife Ada,<ref>{{cite book |title=Stranger and brother: a portrait of C.P. Snow |author=Philip Snow |page=3 |year=1982 |publisher=Macmillan |isbn=0-333-32680-6 |author-link=Philip Snow }}</ref> Charles Snow was the second of four boys, his brothers being Harold, Eric and [[Philip Snow]],<ref>{{cite book |title=A time of renewal: clusters of characters, C. P. Snow, and co, ups |author=Philip Snow |page=234 |year=1998 |publisher=Radcliffe Press|author-link=Philip Snow }}</ref> and was educated at [[Alderman Newton's School]].<ref name=whoswho>{{Who's Who | author=Anon| title=Snow, Baron (Charles Percy)| type = was | id = U159735 | year = 2017 | doi =10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U159735 | edition = online [[Oxford University Press]]|location=Oxford}}</ref><ref name=did>{{cite web|first=Roy|last= Plomley|year=1975|title= C. P. Snow's Desert Island Discs|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p009n6dn|publisher=[[BBC]]}}</ref> In 1923, he passed the intermediate British School Certificate, but remained at Alderman Newton's to work as a laboratory assistant for a further two years.<ref>Snow, ''Stranger and brother'', p. 22.</ref> In 1925 he began a [[University of London]] external degree in science at [[University of Leicester|University College, Leicester]], graduating with a first in chemistry in 1927 and an MSc the following year.<ref>Snow, ''Stranger and brother'', pp. 25, 29.</ref><ref name="CP Snow">{{cite book|last=Tredell|first=N|title=C.P. Snow: The Dynamics of Hope|year=2012|publisher=Springer|isbn=9781137271877}}</ref> Upon leaving Leicester, Snow gained a prestigious Keddey-Fletcher-Warr postgraduate studentship worth Β£200, allowing him to embark on doctoral research at [[Christ's College, Cambridge]].<ref>Snow, ''Stranger and brother'', p. 30.</ref> He received his [[PhD]] in physics from Cambridge in 1930, with a thesis on the [[spectroscopy|infrared spectra]] of simple [[diatomic molecule]]s.<ref name=PhD>{{cite thesis|degree=PhD|publisher=University of Cambridge|url=https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/283752|doi=10.17863/CAM.31121|title=The structure of simple molecules|first= Charles Percy|last=Snow|date=1930|id={{EThOS|uk.bl.ethos.763531}}|website=cam.ac.uk|oclc=1085143960}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201705/physicshistory.cfm|website=aps.org|title=This Month in Physics History: May 7, 1959: C.P. Snow Gives His "Two Cultures" Lecture|author=Anon|publisher=[[American Physical Society]]|year=2017}}</ref>
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