Scottwas the major tracer person for Hamilton's project and at the Crocker. He hired Pat
Durbin, who worked for him and Hamilton. Joseph Crawley was hired as well.
The crew of the cyclotron was only responsible for scheduling and operating.
Scott in San Francisco
Scott left in 1951 to go to the Radioactivity Research Center in San Francisco (separate
from the Radiology Department); he becameits director. Hamilton wasn't worried about
his safety or the safety of others, and he was doing what Scott considered morally wrong
experiments on humans. Scott had helped Hamilton and Earl Miller with the first one.
He knew about the Australian boy who received somefissionable product, but did not
work on that one.
Scott was on the Human Use Committee when it was organized in 1948. The Committee
didn’t put a stop to the experiments. The members screened applications one by one.
Through this committee, UC got permission from the Atomic Energy Commission for
blanket authority on various and sundry radionuclides.
He picked out Dr. Glenh Sheline as a chairman. Sheline isnow a radiotherapist in the
Department of Radiology; he is on loan to the National Cancer Institute. Scott decided
chairmen because he was the only one who could figure out what radiation doses would
do to people.
Hefinally became uninvolved with Berkeley. One could find out more information on
the problems Berkeley had with human experiments from Hardin Jones or Cornelius
Tobias.
Bikini Atoll
Hamilton and Warren recruited the staff for that. Scott was made Major andset up the
radiological laboratory on the hospital ship “Haven”. He saw the Able and Baker bomb
tests. He gave assays of samples and set up monitoring and detection instruments. One
man hetrained, Kermit Larson, went to UCLA (where Warren was).
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Archives and Records Office
Human Radiation Experiments Search and Retrieval Project
Anna Berge Research Notes
Electronic DocumentTitle: Scott
April 4, 1994
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