DOCUMENT SQUACE Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Archives and Records Office Records Series Title Emaar sor Wea Ioeal»ther Notes Found By ANDY & AKANE. Oates :, 4? Lr the specimena,(she needed a lung or a liver from a rat, I gave it to her. SSH: Was there anything else going on in the way of researchf” ia the war years? KGS; Well, we were using the cyclotron to make fission products. Gort think the first thing@che chemists produced that we used was radioactive & Gtrium, which is a fission A product. We were bombarding si uranium, and was makingé“wag) the world supply of, L-een't ~remembex-if) polonium. (Anthe exposed himself to polonium, which is one of the things that probably led to SSH: KGS; . his leukemta that killed him. ;| ey pose fo himself seit You mean accidental lyg’she-expevere? Yes, he didgy in (ene one of the laboratories in the chemistry department. The whole thing got away from him and blew up or burned up; RDFsomething SSH: like that. Las So you think that the exposure to radfoisotopes ~didhave?” A a factor in his Leukemia KGS: Well, yes and the fact that ‘you couldn't keep him out of the control room cyclatronor the bombardment area where the lead came out. If somebody wanted something, he just couldn't rush in there fast enough. Gavthere's a lot of residual radiation from a thing like that. I could pick it up on my instruments that I ransLeConte Hall, which was in the basement, and it had to shine down from . the cyezotron all the way down once that building. SSH: | why did he take suchrisks? KGS; Impatience, I think mostly. He was a very impatient man. PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED