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to the Lab and toss into the hopper.
SSH:
What about the cyclotron itself, who was responsible for
keeping that going?
Kes:
SSH:
He was.
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Wellwhat happened when he was off buzzing
around the country?,
KGS:
Well, he left it with the crews we had a regular cyclotron
crew.
We had some young physicists.
One of them was
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the son of the chairman of the physics department, Deetet Da. ns
Birge, who was kind of a
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(SSH laughs)
That kind of a guy.
SSH:
Was the crew solely responsible for scheduling and operating?
KGS:
Yes, if I needed something I'd go to the chemist, and go
to the crew.
G91 don't remember the members of the crew
too well, as to what their names were.
SSH:
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know there was other wor}
aside from
the fission product metabolism studies({going on
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Hamilton Etnodhad a contract which he shared
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withAxelrod, do you know about that?
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KGS:
Yes, that was due to radioautography of fission or fisstonable
products, or other things.
SSH:
You had nothing in specific to do with that project?
I worked with her
directly I usually gave her all of