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Hugh John Forster Cairns FRS (21 November 1922 – 12 November 2018) was a British physician and molecular biologist who made significant contributions to molecular genetics, cancer research, and public health.
Jan 31, 2019 · Cairns produced one of the most famous images in biology (pictured below), from which he coined the term ‘replication fork’ for the Y-shaped junctions viewed in this partially replicated...
- Leona D. Samson
- lsamson@mit.edu
- 2019
Prof John Cairns. Professor of Health Economics. Jump to: Affiliations Teaching Research Publications. I studied economics at the University of Aberdeen and at the University of York. My first post was as a research fellow in health economics at the University of York.
John Cairns was a physician and molecular biologist who worked on DNA replication and autoradiography. He was the director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory from 1963 to 1968 and initiated its merger with the Long Island Biological Association.
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.
Dr Cairns was a physician and molecular biologist who worked at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne (Australia), at the Virus Research Institute in Entebbe (Uganda), and subsequently at the John Curtin School of Medical Research in Canberra (Australia).
Nov 15, 2018 · The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) was saddened to learn of the passing of Dr John Cairns, who died on 12 November 2018. Dr Cairns was a greatly appreciated collaborator and supporter of IARC over the course of many years.
