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the specimena,(she needed a lung or a liver from a rat,
I gave it to her.
SSH:
Was there anything else going on in the way of researchf”
ia the war years?
KGS;
Well, we were using the cyclotron to make fission products.
Gort think the first thing@che chemists produced that
we used was radioactive
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Gtrium, which is a fission
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product.
We were bombarding si uranium, and
was makingé“wag) the world supply of, L-een't
~remembex-if) polonium. (Anthe exposed himself to
polonium, which is one of the things that probably led to
SSH:
KGS;
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his leukemta that killed him.
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You mean accidental lyg’she-expevere?
Yes, he
didgy in (ene one of the laboratories in the chemistry
department.
The whole thing got away from him and blew
up or burned up;
RDFsomething
SSH:
like that.
Las
So you think that the exposure to radfoisotopes ~didhave?”
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a factor in his Leukemia
KGS:
Well, yes and the fact that ‘you couldn't keep him out of
the control room cyclatronor the bombardment
area where the lead came out.
If somebody wanted something,
he just couldn't rush in there fast enough.
Gavthere's
a lot of residual radiation from a thing like that.
I
could pick it up on my instruments that I ransLeConte Hall,
which was in the basement, and it had to shine down from
.
the cyezotron all the way down once that building.
SSH: |
why did he take suchrisks?
KGS;
Impatience, I think mostly.
He was a very impatient man.
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