| LC control no. | n 81103256 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Cairns-Smith, A. G. (Alexander Graham) |
| Variant(s) | Cairns-Smith, Alexander Graham Smith, A. G. Cairns- (Alexander Graham Cairns-) |
| Associated place | Glasgow (Scotland) Edinburgh (Scotland) |
| Birth date | 1931-11-24 |
| Death date | 2015-08-26 |
| Place of birth | Kilmarnock (Scotland) |
| Place of death | Uplawmoor (Scotland) |
| Field of activity | Chemistry, Organic Molecular biology Painting, Scottish |
| Affiliation | University of Glasgow University of Edinburgh |
| Profession or occupation | Chemists Molecular biologists Painters |
| Found in | His The life puzzle, 1971. Information from 678 converted Jan. 5, 2015 (lecturer in Chemistry, Univ. of Glasgow) Scotsman WWW site, viewed Sept. 15, 2016 (Alexander Cairns-Smith; Alexander Graham Cairns-Smith, scientist; born, 24 November 1931, in Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire; died, 26 August, 2016, in Uplawmoor, East Renfrewshire; did his first degree, in chemistry, at Edinburgh University and completed his PhD there before transferring, in the 1950s, to an academic career at the University of Glasgow; was for the first 20 years of his university career also a noted artist, giving one-man exhibitions of his landscape and abstract works in watercolour and oils; in 1972 Cairns-Smith decided to give up his art to concentrate on organic chemistry and molecular biology; Senior Lecturer and Reader in Chemistry at the University of Glasgow) |
| Associated language | eng |
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