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'''Alexander Graham Cairns-Smith''' [[FRSE]] (24 November 1931 – 26 August 2016) was an [[organic chemist]] and [[molecular biologist]] at the [[University of Glasgow]].<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vws5AAAAIAAJ&q=Alexander+Graham+Cairns-Smith+1931 |title=Who's who of British Scientists |year=1971 |isbn=9780582114647}}</ref> He studied at the University of Edinburgh, where he gained a Ph.D. in Chemistry (1957).<ref>{{cite journal |last=Cairns Smith |first=A. G. |date=1957 |title=Studies in the acridine series |url=https://era.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/29033 }}</ref> He was most famous for his controversial 1985 book ''Seven Clues to the Origin of Life''.