In 1959 C.P. Snow, a British chemist and novelist, gave a lecture called "The Two Cultures" in which he lamented the uncomprehending divide between those educated in the sciences and those who owe their allegiance to the arts. Snow would have been cheered, presumably, by a set of lectures at the aaas meeting which went some small way to bridging that divide, by discussing scientific methods to analyse and restore works of art.
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