OSCUMENT SOURCE Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Archives and Records Office Records Series Title L¥ Kenneth G. Scott Transcription of Tapes, Tape 2 Date of Interview: 17 December 1979 you think there was any tendency, as time went SSH: on, for him to go less and less often into the Labs-dnd become more and more concerned with administrative duties? KGS: Well, I saw so little of him in those years that I don't know what he did with his time. He also was pretty heavily tavojveewith Cornélius jlobias and Hardin Jones, they had —~ : Ky cn ot 3 hy ¢ a high altitude laboratory there of some“sort. Gruglerat was all part of the medical physics group! there was one o _* toes t t . on the Berkeley campus. (and. F. Cook again took charge | 7%" b of that \ x just expressing his personality. And they. ‘ ’ ae Spent j oan Five, ntye ol Cabbar ara tbe be dtRomeecth hfe Db had this high “altitude facility in the White Mountains,‘'~ that they set up up there. j . og re SSH; How did Cook express his personality? KGS: Well, he controlled the whole thing for many years. Both budgetariiy6viay’and researchyise. SSH; He had the money? KGS: Wellhe had control of the grant. The medical physics group, which was mostly physicists from the Berkeley campus};~ and sone other people like Cook, controlled medical physics in the University of California for quite a few years. Is this in the poatCyar years that you're talking about? KGS; Well, this is mostly during the war. So they had the ‘grants ‘and consequently could call the shots, ie that what you're saying? Yess