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or something like that,
SSE:

Hhet-and_why/had he previously Been interested in radioisotopes?

KGS:

No, he just came inglooking for part-time work, and they put
him on as a radfochemist-biclogist type.

SSH:

~And~hou,)were youg’by this times; a fulltime employee of
the Crocker Radfation Lab?

KGS:
SSH:

For $50% a month.
For$50-e-month was that brought about by your
association with John Lawrence?

KGS:

Yes.

SSH:

It was dust-—vort—vf’logical for you to come along woiis ym?
then
Yee, I was doing his work. We were‘treating patients

with leukemia with radtoactive phosphorous’ \yad my job
was to do the excretion bit with the stools and so on.
How was that deciston made, to treat the first patient, I
believe it was a 193%yweetet
Yes, it. was GFghetatmas Eveg Ttke-that;itke-they
ex-som thing
10 (Qt remember I got a call at homes I was supposed to

come in right away.

I don’t think the Lawrences ever really

trusted my radtochemistry, £0 they got Tuttle to do radiochemistry

for yhile.
SSH:

Why would they not trust your radiochemistry?

KGS;

I don't know.

I wasn't a chemist, for one thing.

SSH:

But Tuttle wasn't either.
No, he wasn gy GayTn trying to think of the other people
we had around theres there was a# Martin Kayman.

SSE:

“RCS:

He was “doing a lot of it, wasn't he?
Yes, Re really knew chemistry.

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