Cairns, John, 1923-
Person
Biography
John Cairns, physician and molecular biologist, received his degree in medicine from Oxford University in 1946. Cairns worked as a virologist at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne, at the Virus Research Institute in Entrebbe, Uganda and at the Curtain School of Medical Research in Canberra.
From 1960-61, Cairns spent his sabbatical at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory under Alfred Hershey. He returned to serve as director of the Lab from 1963–1968, while continuing his research on DNA replication and initiating the technique autoradiography. During Cairns’s tenure, he saw Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory officially form from an amalgamation of the Long Island Biological Association’s Biological Laboratory and the Carnegie Institution of Washington’s Department of Genetics. Cairns remained a staff member until 1972 when he was appointed head of the Mill Hill Laboratory of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund. Cairns subsequently worked at the Harvard School of Public Health until his retirement in 1991. He then returned to Oxford and published Matters of Life and Death: Perspectives on Public Health, Molecular Biology, Cancer, and the Prospects for the Human Race in 1997. Cairns passed away in 2018 at the age of 95.
Found in 78 Collections and/or Records:
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and Kaposi's Sarcoma, 1983
File
Scope and Contents
The meeting addressed the increasingly pressing public health problem presented by acquired immunodeficiencysyndrome (AIDS).This meeting, by bringing together immunologists, epidemiologists, pathologists, virologists,and public health officials in a small,informal yet intensive environment,proved particularly useful fo rsetting priorities and developing a greater coherence of effort in approaches to this growing health concern.It was fairly clear,by the meeting's conclusion,that a consensus...
Dates:
1983
Anna Marie Skalka, 2003-03-01
Item — Box AV03, miniDV: CSHL1153
Scope and Contents
Anna Marie Skalka, microbiologist, molecular biologist and geneticist, is interviewed by Mila Pollock on March 1, 2003 at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, in Cold Spring Harbor, New York.Scene 1. 2003 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory meeting: The biology of DNA -- Scene 2. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: first visit -- Scene 3. Coming to work at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory -- Scene 4. Alfred Hershey -- Scene 5. Working with Alfred Hershey -- Scene 6. Alfred Hershey, mentor -- Scene...
Dates:
2003-03-01
Ashley Dunn, 2003-01-15
Item — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents
Ashley Dunn's interview discusses the following:
LIFE IN SCIENCE:
Advice to Young Scientists;
Becoming a Scientist;
Scientific Career;
Joe Sambrook, Mentor;
Working with Joe Sambrook;
Women in Science: Barbara McClintock.JAMES D. WATSON:
Meeting Jim Watson;
Working with Jim Watson, CSHL;
Jim Watson, Personality & Influence;
CSHL: Writing a Paper on RNA Splicing;
Jim Watson, Writer.CSHL:
Arriving at CSHL;
Barbara...
Dates:
2003-01-15
Bruce Alberts, 2008-08-22
Item — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Oral History Collection contains interviews conducted with 200 scientists within the fields of molecular biology, genetics, and the life sciences between 1990 and 2024. The interviewees provide first-hand accounts of their experiences in the fields of modern biology, such as neuroscience, cancer, genetics, plant genetics, genomics, biotechnology and others, from the 1940s through the 2000s. The collection contains audio and video recordings, as well as transcripts of interviews....
Dates:
2008-08-22
Bruce Stillman, 2003-08-14
Item — Box AV04, miniDV: CSHL1166
Scope and Contents
Bruce Stillman, molecular biologist and biochemist, is interviewed by Mila Pollock on August 14, 2003, at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, in Cold Spring Harbor, New York.Bruce Stillman discusses the following in his interview:
Scene 1. On becoming Director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory -- Scene 2. On following Jim Watson as Director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory -- Scene 3. Concerns about being Director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory -- Scene 4. Transition from scientist...
Dates:
2003-08-14
Cairns, John, 2000
File — Box CP21, Folder: 2
Identifier: C - Personal
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Correspondence series consists of incoming and outgoing handwritten and typed letters, carbons, postcards, faxes, and telegrams generated during Sydney Brenner's career. The bulk of this series covers the late 1940s to the 2000s. Correspondents include over 30 Nobel laureates, as well as biochemists, geneticists, students, publishers, and others. Highlights of the collection include the correspondence from Francis Crick, with whom Brenner shared an office for 20 years. Topics covered...
Dates:
2000
Cairns, John (1 of 3), 1958 - 2019
File — Box 1, Folder: 13
Identifier: MSM_b01_f13_001
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Of particular note in this subseries is the correspondence between Meselson and Jean Weigle (University of Geneva) in which they discuss Meselson's experiments on transduction (1959-1962).
Dates:
1958 - 2019
Cairns, John (1 of 3), 1962 - 1966
File — Box CR07, Folder: 13
Identifier: JDW_02_02_0269_001
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The correspondence series includes handwritten and typed letters, carbon copies, postcards and notes dating from 1916-2012. The bulk of the material covers Watson’s sojourn in Cambridge (1951-1954), Harvard (1956-1975) and as Director (1968-1994), President (1994-2003), Chancellor (2003-2007), and Chancellor Emeritus (2007-2011) of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Watson’s career at the Copenhagen Crystallography Lab and time at California Institute of Technology are...
Dates:
1962 - 1966
Cairns, John (2 of 3), 1958 - 2019
File — Box 2, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSM_b01_f14_001
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Of particular note in this subseries is the correspondence between Meselson and Jean Weigle (University of Geneva) in which they discuss Meselson's experiments on transduction (1959-1962).
Dates:
1958 - 2019
Cairns, John (2 of 3), 1967
File — Box CR08, Folder: 01
Identifier: JDW_02_02_0270_001
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The correspondence series includes handwritten and typed letters, carbon copies, postcards and notes dating from 1916-2012. The bulk of the material covers Watson’s sojourn in Cambridge (1951-1954), Harvard (1956-1975) and as Director (1968-1994), President (1994-2003), Chancellor (2003-2007), and Chancellor Emeritus (2007-2011) of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Watson’s career at the Copenhagen Crystallography Lab and time at California Institute of Technology are...
Dates:
1967
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- Archival Object 72
- Collection 4
- Unprocessed Material 2
- Subject
- Congresses as Topic 12
- DNA Replication 7
- Travel 7
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 5
- DNA 5
- Escherichia coli 4
- Experiments 4
- Manuscripts as Topic 4
- Mutagenesis 4
- Science Study and teaching 4
- Bacteriophages 3
- Genetics 3
- Human Genome Project 3
- Molecular Biology 3
- Publishing 3
- Bacterial genetics 2
- Centrifugation, Density gradient 2
- Cold Spring Harbor (N.Y.) 2
- Communication in science 2
- Genetic Code 2
- Genome, Human 2
- Laurel Hollow (N.Y.) 2
- Meetings 2
- RNA 2
- Thank-you notes 2
- Viruses 2
- Women in Science 2
- Writing 2
- X-ray crystallography 2
- Adenoviruses 1
- Administrative Records 1
- Agent Orange 1
- Annual Reports 1
- Asilomar Conference on Recombinant DNA Molecules. 1
- Awards and Prizes 1
- Bacteriophage lambda 1
- Banbury Center 1
- Base Sequencing 1
- Biochemistry 1
- Biological weapons 1
- Biology--Education 1
- Biotechnology Patents 1
- Bloomington (Ind.) 1
- Boston (Mass.) 1
- California Institute of Technology 1
- Cambridge (England) 1
- Cambridge (Mass.) 1
- Cambridge University 1
- Cancer 1
- Cancer--Research 1
- Chemical warfare -- Research -- United States -- History -- 20th century 1
- Chemistry 1
- Chicago (Ill.) 1
- Chromatography 1
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Press 1
- Cold Spring Harbor Symposium on Quantitative Biology 1
- Copenhagen (Denmark) 1
- Correspondence 1
- DNA Repair 1
- DNA, Recombinant 1
- DNA--Structure 1
- Drosophila 1
- Drosophila Genetics 1
- Ekaterinburg (Russia) 1
- Employment 1
- Family 1
- Financial Records 1
- Fund raising 1
- Fund raising – research 1
- Genomics 1
- Grant Proposals 1
- Great Britain 1
- Herbicides--War use 1
- Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) 1
- Human Genome Project--Economic aspects--United States. 1
- Human Genome Project--Moral and ethical aspects 1
- Human Genome--Patents 1
- Human genome 1
- Human genome--Congresses. 1
- Invitations 1
- Laos 1
- Ledgers (Account Books) 1
- Lloyd Harbor (N.Y.) 1
- Long Island (N.Y.) 1
- Membership 1
- Membership lists 1
- Microbiology 1
- Minutes 1
- Mutation Research 1
- National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) 1
- Neurobiology 1
- Nobel Prize winners 1
- Nobel Prizes 1
- Operation Ranch Hand, 1962-1971 1
- Plasmids 1
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 1
- Proposal writing for grants 1
- Proteins 1
- Proteins--Synthesis 1
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