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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
Professor of Health Economics. United Kingdom. Email. John. 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.
Learn about John Cairns, a British physician and molecular biologist who made significant contributions to molecular genetics, cancer research, and public health. Read his 1978 book "Cancer Science and Society" and explore his career and achievements.
Professor Cairns is a specialist in Scottish and English legal history, especially in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He has published widely on legal thought, education, slavery and the Scottish enlightenment.
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.
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.
