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applications, one by one.
SSH:
Now thie was the committee of the medical school?
KGS J
Yes.
And it was through that committee that the University
of Caltfornia got the permission from the Atomic Energy
Commissiong/for blanket authority on various and sundry
radtonuc{S4des.
SSH:
So it was just a matter of this board meeting and making
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decision in regard to each case?
KGS;
We'd circulate each application around, and I guess I had
quite a bit of weight in the committe’ we went through a
whole series of chairnin. Cagythe president's office
in Berkeley used to have his secretary call me up and
ask
me, “Who do you suggest next?"
So I went through
a whole bunch of people, including DOSeSieline, who
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is now a radfotherapist fn the department of
radiology.
I think he's been loaned to the National Cancer Institute
or something.
SSH:
Why do you think you had such authority?
Well, I was the only one over there who could really
figure out@in radiation dosageag-What the experiment
was going to give to the recipienta” ind vhet-E-thoughe
whethe r
weat it was worth doing or not@or whether it was just
a Ghte-in-the-skything:
So this commfttee-was only considering cases
that were
going ‘to davolve the use of radioisotopes.
Yes.
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On what we'd call an experimental hasts.
Would this include experiments that were projected