DOCUMENT SOUACE Lawrence Berkaley Laboratory Archives and Records Office Records Series Title b= 1] “OTT. RAD ATI eA Be IFEice thetTT Accession No. File Code No. Aoi = Carton No. 2 34 Hamilton moved infee~it_wee—tust—itee-chat,)with this New secret project. SSH: How did that come about? Do you know why Crocker and Hamilton were chosen to run ¢fe;—yor*re-tateing-now-aba the fission metabolismy,_.. 4 KGS: is A experiments. Yes, well, Joseph Hamilton had support of Ernest Lawrence. ‘an@he became quite -capable in the physics necessary to run a cyclotron, So they turned the 60. Seeh cyclotron over to hin. SSH: Do you know how he became interested in radioisotopes? I know he was involved relatively early, before he even came overg’on a permanent basisg’ to Berkeley. KGS: Well, I told your-of my memory of his pewsnel visit to the Lab. He was just a young resident in neurology interested in doing something oe se | aS Gin vrs. ‘ tte SSH: And you think that visit was what pretipitated; waesehet? KGS: Well, he was hired on the staff by then. him a laboratory that he could run. pVrwAnwn And they gave He was interested eon -— in the metabolism of various element ss I was a guinea pig of his. He worked out the excretion of bromide in the body \ynd I saved a urine sample every time I had OW. one, until it seemed wrong to @o® throw them away, #fT "pave—them-away_to_someones” (SSH laughs} You know that funny feeling. com SSH: Well, even before that _t-betteve!he had done some radiosodium work 1936, withStone, Tn fact he published in I peltevefybefore he was really over on the Berkeley