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:
Letter from Sydney Brenner to John Cairns #9, 3/4/1967
Item — Box CP03, Folder: 2
Identifier: SB_01_01_0097_027
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:
3/4/1967
Letter from Sydney Brenner to John Cairns #10, 15/05/1992
Item — Box CP03, Folder: 2
Identifier: SB_01_01_0097_033
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:
15/05/1992
Letter from Sydney Brenner to M. Errera, 28/10/1977
Item — Box CP04, Folder: 38
Identifier: SB_01_01_0172_040
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:
28/10/1977
Letter from Sydney Brenner to M. J. Prival, 21/08/1992
Item — Box CP12, Folder: 13
Identifier: SB_01_01_0482_014
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:
21/08/1992
Letter from Sydney Brenner to William Hayes #2, 22/02/1972
Item — Box CP06, Folder: 38
Identifier: SB_01_01_0261_012
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:
22/02/1972
Letter from William Hayes to Sydney Brenner #1, 14/02/1972
Item — Box CP06, Folder: 38
Identifier: SB_01_01_0261_013
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:
14/02/1972
Mario Capecchi, 2003-02-27
Item — Box AV01, miniDV: CSHL1029
Scope and Contents
Mario Capecchi discusses the following in his interview:
LIFE IN SCIENCE:
Advice for Young Scientists,
Becoming a Scientist,
Current Research.JAMES D. WATSON:
Jim Watson, “Lucky Jim”,
Jim Watson: Director of CSHL,
Jim Watson, Nobel Prize,
Jim Watson’s Harvard Laboratory,
Jim Watson’s Harvard Laboratory: Atmosphere,
Jim Watson’s Harvard Laboratory: Communication,
Working with Jim Watson: Harvard University,
Jim Watson and his Students,
...
Dates:
2003-02-27
Matthew Meselson, 2002-07-17
Item — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents
Matthew Meselson, geneticist and molecular biologist, is interviewed by Mila Pollock at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on July 17, 2002.Matt Meselson talks about his scientific pursuits as a youth, his undergraduate years at the University of Chicago and Caltech, and his work with Linus Pauling as a graduate student in chemistry at Caltech in the early 1950s, including his work on density gradient centrifugation. He recounts how his auspicious relationship with...
Dates:
2002-07-17
Matthew Meselson Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSM
Abstract
The Dr. Matthew Meselson Collection (1948-2022) is composed of materials accrued by Dr. Matthew Meselson during his doctorate work at the California Institute of Technology from 1953-1957 under Linus Pauling, his tenure as an Assistant Professor at Caltech, his work with Franklin Stahl in 1955-1957 demonstrating self-replication of DNA, and his tenure as a Professor at Harvard...
Dates:
1940 - 2022
Found in:
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Archives
"On the Origin of Human Cancers" - Cairns, John, 1980
File — Box WO01, Folder: 32
Identifier: SB_02_03_0030_001
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Writings series consists of manuscripts, typescripts, preprints, photocopies, and proofs of papers written by both Brenner and other scientists. It sometimes includes related correspondence and supporting materials. The Writings series is divided into 3 subseries.
1. Brenner (1949-2012)
2. Theses (1947; 1954)
3. Others (c1950-2007)
...
Dates:
1980
Additional filters:
- Type
- 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
- Publications 1 + ∧ less
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