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Nov 15, 2018 · John Cairns (1922 – 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. He was a member of the IARC Scientific Council for four years, from 1978 ...
In 1974 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1981, John Cairns received a MacArthur Foundation ("genius") Fellowship. He is the author of the 1978 book Cancer: Science and Society (now out of print) and the 1997 book, Matters of Life and Death: Perspectives on Public Health, Molecular Biology, Cancer, and the Prospects for the Human ...
Feb 15, 2018 · Professor John Cairns Jr passed peacefully at home on 5 November 2017 in Blacksburg, Virginia, USA, not far from his beloved Virginia Tech. John will be remembered as a husband, father, and grandfather, distinguished professor and academic mentor, ecological pioneer, prolific author, champion of social consciousness and sustainability, fly-fishing enthusiast, avid hiker, experienced folk ...
- Ken Dickson, Tom Waller, Richard Rip Sparks, Guy Lanza
- 15 February 2018
- 2018
- 14, Issue2
John Cairns (1922 – 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. He was a member of the IARC Scientific Council for four years, from 1978 ...
John Cairns Jr., a University Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Environmental Biology, died Sunday, Nov. 5, in Blacksburg. He was 94. Cairns joined the faculty of Virginia Tech in 1968, having previously worked as curator of limnology at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia from 1948 to 1966, and then a professor of zoology at the University of Kansas from 1966 to 1968.
Oct 10, 2013 · EDITOR'S NOTE. This issue of IEAM contains two provocative Learned Discourses from Professor John Cairns, Jr. (“Integrated environmental assessment and management during a planetary state shift” and “Can a species rapidly moving toward a self-inflicted extinction be considered successful?”), which will be his last publications over an incredibly distinguished career.
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Jan 31, 2019 · John Cairns died peacefully on 12 November 2018, just shy of 96 years of age. He is survived by his wife of over 70 years, Elspeth Cairns, who was the enabling partner in this remarkable career ...
