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Carton 5 60” Cyclotron Files: 1944
In May, Kenneth Scott informed Louis Hempleman howto ash human feces samples for
"49" (I still am not sure what 49 is).
Hamilton's secret reports were routed to E.O. Lawrence, to the Area Engineer at Berkeley
(in duplicate), to Robert Stone at Clinton Labs, and to Stone at Chicago; in some cases,
also to Fidler. (see letter, Oct. 30, 1944)
Hamilton wanted to have human volunteers inhale briefly dust or smoke with ‘racer
amounts of radioactive elements such as 3-day zirconium (Aug 10, 44). In a summary of
activities of the Ber-—- [illegible] Project from 1945, work planned included inhalation by
human subjects of Zr89 as Zirconium Oxide, to determine the proportion of material
retained in the lungs and upper respiratory tract.
Stone requested piecesofrib, liver, spleen, lymph nodes, and lung from a man with
lymphatic leukemia (name of Donald Johnson) to be preserved in alcohol and sent to
Hamilton; he wants both pre- and postmortem studies done. The request was made to
Rochester. (Oct. 24, 44)
In December, Stafford Warren wrote a memoforthe files concerning the Medical
Experimentation Program on Radium and Product. There had been product experiments
on rats since early 1944, and now they needed tracer experiments on humans. Therat
injections were done by Dr. Cole in
Chicago, Dr. Bale in Rochester, Dr. Hamilton, and
Dr. Hemplemann. (Dec. 2,44) In a summary ofactivities of the Ber--- [illegible] Project
from 1945, work done included plutonium tracer studies in a human (Pu 38). the tracer
studies were to be continued andinitiated in a second human subject (with Pu238), The
Cyclotron correspondence also includes letters from Stone to Hamilton (Jul 30, 45)
concerning paymentto the first man for collections of feces and from Stone to B.H.
Mackey and W.D. Norwood, MD,at Hanford, in reference to product determination in
urine (Nov. 9, 45). There are also short notes to W.D. Douglass from Scott in 1946,
informing him of the numbers of samples collected from _
to date (name was
mentioned). Scott also discussed an exchange of samples with Edwin R. Russell from
patients injected with Pu (Ap. 15, 46).
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Archives and Records Office
Human Radiation Experiments Search and Retrieval Project
Anna Berge Research Notes
Electronic DocumentTitle: Bancroft/EOL
April 4, 1994
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