NOTES FROM THED.C. FILES
Date: 4 Feb. 1994
Therestricted documentI found last week, Hamilton's Report on 48A-1, was found again
(I assumeit is the same); the classification status was removed.
The D.C.Files generally contain information highly relevant to experiments on human
subjects in the following folders:
Projects and Building--Crocker Lab
Accelerators—60” Cyclotron
Medical Physics
Chemistry
Key investigators represented in the files include:
John Lawrence
Joseph Hamilton
Rex Huff
Nathaniel Berlin
John Gofman
Membersof the Division of Medical Physics:
John Lawrence
John Gofman
Hardin Jones
Cornelius Tobias
Nathaniel Berlin
Rex Huff
Nello Pace
Some experiments which seemed especially relevant to our searches:
1) John Lawrence's fieldwork in Lima, Peru, 1950 and 1952:
Lawrence seems to have been working with Professor Alberto Hurtado,of the
University of Lima, Lima, Peru. Hurtado was oneofthe leading high altitude
physiologists, and a new high altitude laboratory had just been completed in the Andes
for him andhis staff. Lawrence and other membersof his group, including Nathaniel
Berlin, were guests of Hurtado and were studying high altitude physiology and
polycythemia. To do this, radioactive elements such as iron and phosphorus, and
possibly carbon-14, were shipped to Peru, and experiments were carried out on native
people of the high Andes. The relevant papers have been copied.
2) Lawrence apparently conducted somestudies on convicts at San Quentin in 1949. It
is unclear what this research actually was; a Dr. Leo Stanley was also involved. The
relevant papers have been copied.
3) We have someproject reports on researchactivities covering the time from the 1940's
to 1951:
A Report of the Past, Present, and Future Research Activities for Project 48-A-1,
by Joseph Hamilton. There is a concise summary ofthe nature of this project, as well aas
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Archives and Records Office
Human Radiation Experiments Search and Retrieval Project
Anna Berge Research Notes
Electronic DocumentTitle: DC Files
April 4, 1994
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