COCUMENT SOURCE Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Archives and Records Offico fa) ST a L? Records Series Tile re ed P-Uil =< ort BAD eee ‘ eR oFOA sere bey Le Ari A et File Code No, Carton No. Folder No. Nees 27 SSH: Why was that? KGS: Bester’Stone didn't Iike him. SSH: Was that just a personal thing? KGS: I think it was kind of a personal thingsyand a political thing. SSH: Did Stone look upon Lawrence as a threat to his monopoly over all forms of radtation? KGs: No, I don’t know if he felt that way, but Stone really owed Ernest Lawrence a lot. He made the 60 Seek cyclotron available for the neutron therapy chat Boater Stone did. There was another man, who worked with Stone, by the name Ttarkin, who was upset by all of this, because Larkin thought it was his neutron therapy. (GRYbocte? Stone's wealthy patients used to roll up with their chauffeurs and their iced champagne, ha the Laboratory they had a big field day that afternoon, we all got s®acked on champagne and I thought it was wonderful. SSH: What was the breakdown of labor? You have John Larkin, who was an M.D., and Robert Stone, and then John Lawrence was involvedgrin the early dayaspin that neutron therapy. were the three M.D.‘s doing? “‘XGS: What | Chins for power, s6+——_——Ceugh}—What—wase? xos* SSH: RGS; “It's as atraight aes that, (Whatcan you expand on that? Building on their own personal ambitions and regaining and maintaining control over the program,