MENT SOURCEtory ora LawesBerkeley Labs Office ord Archives and Rec eyclotron. Ang I was interested in blood and nutritic IT asked them what elements they could make that were +. interestingg\nd it turned: oulieue best bet was radioz phosphorous. SSH: Do you remember what year this was? KGS: Tt was after "31. ‘ The paper, which was one of the firs: that came out of the Radiation Laboratory, was publishe:. But publications took a long rime. 1S thet SSH: . ee Now ws the phosphorous study fo chickens that you were about? KGS: Yes, we did the study on the effect of P32 on the white « £ A ofthe chicken . SSH: Now, who is "we"aaaindiz that again Cook? KGS: Well, Cook was in there, in sort of a, fkll he's dead now, he can't defend himself, but my impression of segthat he was forever smoking cigarettes. He had a pile of Saturday Evening Posts about three feet high, and his memory, rv: powers, weren't the best. (n¥he'd ait there and read thes« dam magazinessyday after day, smoking cigarettes. SSH: -You mean in the Yahe would do that? KGS: Yes, fn his office. He had the little corner office on the ‘wight~fiand entrance to the Life Sctences building. dndhe a couple of labs there and we had some other general facili SSH: So he was reading whilerrcople were getting the ideas and dc ' the work? : Right. ~ §SHt: KGS? Who was involved with that phosphorous atudy in chickens? os “ Well the physicists were people like Edwaeed McMillan, who w ra