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l. Project Tide BLLOGICAL AND MEDICAL ASPECTS
21. (continued) OF IONIZING RADIATION

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3. Project No. (E.O.)Ra21-47-005
8. Cognizant Agency ary

University of Chicago-USAF Radiation Laboratory, under a contract
between the University of Chicago and the U. S. Air Force.
Service testing is not required.

indefinite.

The duration of the project is

The University of Chicago group originally entered the
above field of research in April 1948.
Their entire support at
the time came from the Atomic Energy Commission,with the Chemical

War Service, U.

S. Army,

acting as the contracting agency.

In

October 1950, the Atomic Energy Commission replaced the Army
Chemical Corps as the contracting agency.
The Atomic Energy
Commission has indicated their willingness to release the present

facilities at the University of Chicago to the Air Force for this

project.

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