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side of the bay.
KGS:
Well,Ham{iton always was vacillating back and forth.
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Ke
SSH:
Do you know anything about those early radiosodium
experiments?
KGS;
I don't know anything about them) I don't know what he
did with Ston
except what Stone says,
‘any’ the main
interest had to be radioactive todinegin those early
days.
It's a fission products-4s you know. (ana™ Tefue ~
131 with a eight day half-life was really developed
from the uranium materials that were in the nuclear
reactor, in the pile.
Qn?the Atomic Energy Commission
began shipping out batches of fis: to any of the aubcontractors, which included us.
When I got it at the
Qadiation Lab, at Crocker Laboratory, I was quite a bit
in control of laboratory policy. (ang interested Earl
Miller in using radioactive tfodine to investigate
thyroid disease and so forth.
Qaihe get up a lab there,>~
at U.C. Medical Center. (anit has“become quite a famous
laboratory, hey named it after hingMES he retired.
Kind
of a gift you get out of the University,
(Laugh)
fakes
-40 years.
SSH:
something» I know Hamilton continued his
lodine studies after the war. gauettya
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lot of his work on the naturally occurring, the<-—
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_wotd_t_wonty-weil’things like the bromide-chlorine studies