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very “much. in the act in those days, \nd ree Alvarez,’ you
probably knowgie just got a prize.
SSH:
They were in charge of producing the isotope?
KGS:
They were running the original 3 "sere, cyclotron, which etre
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biggest mess of smpand wiresg, cages that youtsee, but it
ran very well.
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which is a very small amount of radioactive phosphorous y aa
Why did they Become interested in doing biological experiments?
Well, they’ had this machine and they were interested in doing
anythingy that MT think they were probably interested in helping
me, too.
Ge we, went through Professor Lawrence for most of
the support on that. (HEne finally enrew me out of the
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because # was such a pest we ee
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SSH:
Itve read that Ernest Lawrence, in the early and nideobivetes,
was very interested in applying the cyclotron to biolcgical
and medical purposes.
KGS:
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very taghe in those days.
They“nade and Laterf{more
iritting in his office, I guess,
radioactive phosphorous, Ne
and I had a lot of proposals to make@for things we could
he was at leose ends,
do with radioactive phosphorous. GaPhs
apparently, ‘and brought me back into the fold.
He had an
associate that te died. very recently, fadby the name of
bona Cooks}, who ran things, He was the first
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Did you Have to go through him to get Lgsotopes?