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MeMillan,
You'd just go up and pound on the door and say, “I
need somemore phosphorous?"
Kes:
I dene”, want the target to be made out of brass} it just louses
up the radfochemical preparation which follows it. (an
wanted aluminum. Cand McMillan said, “Aluminum ian't going to
do any good, it dissolves very rapidly in acid solutions.”
And I safd, "No ,it doesn't."
And he said, "I'll show you,"
at got some aluminum and stuck it in a concentrated nitric
acid and nothing happened.
CPt» face was..very red, and he's
been needling me all through these years about one thing or | .
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another.
I don*t think he ever forgave nesyfor giving a*lesson
—ehemtet—a—legson’ in radiochemistry) whichie.””
Well, it probably made a bit of difference, too, that here you
werey’
just a tecsat-os fairly recent beers degree holderg3—
too and you were showing up somebody much Higheralong.
Weil, that's partly true, tHe was from the California Institute
of Technology, and they have an excellent staff down there.
McMillan f# an excellent man, but.... .7#¥5¢ )
Was he largely in charge of the isotope productiongyin those
years?
What about Martin Kaymen, when dees he come in?
Martin Kaymen was very busy in that area.
production ‘came on later,
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