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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human McCarthy, G.J. updated 2022-07-27 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P000947b.htm person Cairns Hugh William Bell KBE AACR2 26 June 1896 18 July 1952 Place of Birth Port Pirie, South Australia, Australia Place of Death Oxford, England Neurosurgeon Hugh Cairns, a South Australian Rhodes scholar, was Nuffield professor of surgery at Oxford 1937-1952. He had an international reputation as a neuro-surgeon, being called on to treat such people as T E Lawrence in 1935 and George S. Patton in 1946.

Born Port Pirie, South Australia, 26 June 1896. Died Oxford, 18 July 1952. KBE 1946. Educated University of Adelaide (MB, BS 1917). Served with the Australian Army Medical Corps 1915, 1918; pathology institute, London Hospital, surgical unit, London Hospital, studied neurosurgery in Boston on a Rockefeller fellowship 1925-26; consulting work, London hospital, operating in West End nursing homes; Nuffield chair of surgery at Oxford 1937-52; adviser on head injuries to the Ministry of Health and neurosurgeon to the army during World War II. Commemorated by the Cairns library at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford.

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 'Cairns, Hugh William Bell', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Cairns, Hugh William Bell Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book Section: Sir Hugh William Bell Cairns, 1896-1952 Schurr, Peter H. Sir Hugh William Bell Cairns, 1896-1952 Oxford Oxford University Press 2004 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Book: Hugh Cairns Fraenkl, G. J. Hugh Cairns Melbourne Oxford University Press 1991