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Hamilton moved infee~it_wee—tust—itee-chat,)with this
New secret project.
SSH:
How did that come about?
Do you know why Crocker and
Hamilton were chosen to run ¢fe;—yor*re-tateing-now-aba the fission metabolismy,_.. 4
KGS:
is
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experiments.
Yes, well, Joseph Hamilton had support of Ernest Lawrence.
‘an@he became quite
-capable in
the physics necessary
to run a cyclotron, So they turned the 60. Seeh cyclotron
over to hin.
SSH:
Do you know how he became interested in radioisotopes?
I know he was involved relatively early, before he even
came overg’on a permanent basisg’ to Berkeley.
KGS:
Well, I told your-of my memory of his pewsnel visit
to the Lab.
He was just a young resident in neurology
interested in doing something oe se
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Gin vrs. ‘ tte
SSH:
And you think that visit was what pretipitated; waesehet?
KGS:
Well, he was hired on the staff by then.
him a laboratory that he could run.
pVrwAnwn
And they gave
He was interested
eon
-—
in the metabolism of various element ss I was a guinea
pig of his.
He worked out the excretion of bromide in
the body \ynd I saved a urine sample every time I had
OW.
one, until it seemed wrong to @o® throw them away, #fT
"pave—them-away_to_someones”
(SSH laughs}
You know that
funny feeling.
com
SSH:
Well, even before that _t-betteve!he had done some
radiosodium work
1936,
withStone, Tn fact he published in
I peltevefybefore he was really over on the
Berkeley