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tions were made by manyindividuals in manydepartments, including Medical, Instrumentation
and Health Physics, Photography and Graphic
Arts, the Shipping Section and others. We are
grateful to the following people for their support
and advice: Dr. Maurice Goldhaber, Director;
Dr. J.B.H. Kuper, Chairman of the Instrumentation and Health Physics Department; Dr. V.P.
Bond, Chairmanof the Medical Department, and
others in his Department, including Drs. D.D.
Van Slyke, E.P. Cronkite, and S. Cohn, Messrs.
A. Finn, G. Jackson, and W. J. Walsh, and the
nursing staff of the Medical Research Center.
In regard to advice and consultation on the thyroid pathology in the Marshallese, we are indebted
to Drs. S. Warren and W.A. Meissner of the New
England Deaconess Hospital; Dr. J.B. Stanbury,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Dr. B.P.
Colcock, Lahey Clinic; Dr. E.D. Henley, University of Washington; Dr. G.H. Klinck, Armed
Forces Institute of Pathology; Dr. S. Lindsay, University of California; CommanderC. J. Stahl, U.S.
Navy; and Drs. L.K. Dahl, H.L. Atkins, and H.A.
Johnson of Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Wewish also to thank Miss B.R. Brezisky for
her secretarial assistance and Mrs. M. Dienesfor
her editorial help.
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