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:
Copy of letter from E. J. Steele to the Editor, published in Molecular Reproduction and Development, 1989
Item — Box CP16, Folder: 32
Identifier: SB_01_01_0647_007
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:
1989
Dicing with Darwin by Sydney Brenner, 1992
Item — Box CP16, Folder: 32
Identifier: SB_01_01_0647_002
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:
1992
Handwritten letter from John Cairns to Sydney Brenner, 18/05/1966
Item — Box CP03, Folder: 2
Identifier: SB_01_01_0097_017
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:
18/05/1966
Handwritten letter from John Cairns to Sydney Brenner, 19/04/1967
Item — Box CP03, Folder: 2
Identifier: SB_01_01_0097_029
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:
19/04/1967
Handwritten letter from Michael G. P. Stoker to Sydney Brenner #1, 1969-1970
Item — Box CP16, Folder: 40
Identifier: SB_01_01_0655_005
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:
1969-1970
Human Health Data From Defined Populations, 1979-10-28 - 1979-10-31
File
Scope and Contents
Combined genetic and epidemiological investigations of defined groups, a number of them with cancer rates markedly different from that of the general population (according to presentations at the conference) form an important tool for quantifying the impact on cancer rates of such factors as variations in food in the diet, content of water or other drinks, or cigarettes. The conference also heard much evidence that new tools, such as computerized construction of pedigrees of such groups as...
Dates:
1979-10-28 - 1979-10-31
James Sherley, 2001-09-06
Item — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents
James Sherley, professor and stem cell researcher, is interviewed by Mila Pollock on September 6, 2001, at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, in Cold Spring Harbor, New York.James Sherley discusses the following in his interview:
Scene 1. Becoming a scientist -- Scene 2. Scientific career -- Scene 3. Meetings at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory -- Scene 4. Bruce Stillman and Tom Kelly -- Scene 5. Research by Bruce Stillman and Tom Kelly -- Scene 6. Tom Kelly -- Scene 7. John Cairns --...
Dates:
2001-09-06
James Watson (Oral History), 2003-07-25
Item — Box AV03, miniDV: CSHL1189
Scope and Contents
James D. Watson, Nobel Prize winning scientist best known for his discovery with Francis Crick of the double-helical structure of DNA, is interviewed by Mila Pollock and Jan Witkowski in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, on July 25, 2003. The videorecording is part of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Archives Oral History Project.Dr. Watson recalls the individuals, meetings and conversations which occurred during the mid-1980s surrounding the nascent human genome initiative. He...
Dates:
2003-07-25
Jeffrey H. Miller, 2006-03-08
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:
2006-03-08
John Cairns, 2000-06-14
Item — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents
John Cairns, physician and molecular biologist, is interviewed by Mila Pollock and Deborah Barnes, in Chipping Norton, England, on July 14, 2000. John Cairns describes the people and circumstances which influenced and guided his career in science. From his relationships with the pioneers of the field of molecular biology in the 1950s, his research on viruses and DNA replication at the Australian National University, Caltech, and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, to his years as director of Cold...
Dates:
2000-06-14
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- Congresses as Topic 12
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- Manuscripts as Topic 4
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- Bacteriophages 3
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- Human Genome Project 3
- Molecular Biology 3
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- Centrifugation, Density gradient 2
- Cold Spring Harbor (N.Y.) 2
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- Genome, Human 2
- Laurel Hollow (N.Y.) 2
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- 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
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- Operation Ranch Hand, 1962-1971 1
- Plasmids 1
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 1
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