DOCUMENT SOUACE Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Archives and Records Oftico Records Series Title Accession No. anae a File Code No. JO i+. Carton No. Folder No. 68 pF . Vaktye Medal ieba® ow. When [ moved into radiology, _ 4 hefore there was a radioactivity center, my annual salary was4; 200 dubierPe a yearn \nd that was it. hetero after Bikini I was turning down jobs for #25, 000 deters a year. One of them was wae’Hunter's Point: a? foals. [tie I designed the oaningld now abandoned or blown up or something, for decontaminat ing all those lousy Bikini infested ships. for SSH:. Was that the sole purpose of the ya? KGS: Oh, that was their first problem when this was the end of the thing. The Navy offered'me the directorship of that laboratory. SSH: leave I was thinking back to when you did see, for San Francisco tt in 195¥% §seems to me that Crocker Lab me a rather didi + att weak po ition. Hamilton was dead. Durbin had Dadnt factd asd, a Ph.D. “A one at oho? dtd Be 32. espe * 2 In-fact,—ehe-didnltSS. ' > aan to ore EC Ter Th. tt 2 wr + SSE 2 egy SSH: “Well, who was left to administer Crocker Lab? Do you know anything about that? RCS: Well,T guess nobody. They certainly didn't come around to me and ask for help. So I don't know. waa inthere pretty heavy at that time. would have been. Hardin Jones John Lawrence “ae, ‘.