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where she is, maybe she's not around any more,
SSH:
What did you do with her?
KGS:
Well, the other big thing that happened to me was that Ernest's
brother, John Lawrence,
got very interested in radioactive
phosphorous, and he knew quite a lot about transmissable animal
comets. GFwe had a leukemiaoe! mphorht ch you'trananit
to certain strains of mice. (an?he was at Yale at the time,
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and he brought a lot out and got me started with leukemic mice
and mice with solid cumobys , lymph arcs .
What were you trying to find out?
I was trying to cure cancer.
Lots
mare—yer?” So you were looking for something that would localize.
Yes,
What happened from there?
Well, we had terrible equipment problems at that timeg“and
ha«Sutod was always a problem.
Excuse me, but were you now actually working in the Rad Laboor did you still have a niche in the Faysiology Jepartment?. 7
Well, Both.
My first memory of Joseph Hamilton was when we were
weighing out some mouse tissues to assay for radioactive
phosphorous.
(n¥Joe cane in and sat down on a stool in the
Yad Behind us ‘and introduced himself. He was from the Keurology
Bepartment at the U.C. medical center.
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any of this, but I still remember ft. Gnd.
Was that ‘very early. wheter
That wasvery early, that was pefere-che-fivet, a couple of years
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the
hefore the first puilfcation on‘treatment of mice far leukemia
with P32.
carefully judging the dose, I was able to