BERGE:
Notentirely, no.
KOHN:
All right. Well, when Dr. Stone left the AEC and went back to
his post at the UCSF as head of the Departmentof Radiology, a decision had
been made by the AEC to have a numberof national laboratories. The AEC
was supporting Oak Ridge, Brookhaven, Argort/and then on a very much
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smaller scale, they decided that Stone should have a high-energy unit for
therapy in San Francisco. Dr. Stone chose the highest energy machine
possible with reasonable planning; the General Electric Co. had built a 70 MeV
synchrotron, and they would build him a second one. So a special building
wasconstructed to house the machine behind the main USCF buildings;it
would also contain some laboratory space. Haveyouseenit?
BERGE:
No.
KOHN:
The Laboratory was completed around 1950-1951. The
synchrotron was a very large machine; it had to be installed, made to work
reliably, and calibrated. Dr. Gail Adams cametobe the physicist in charge of
the machine, and healso instructed the radiology residents in radiological
physics. Dr. Stone asked meif I would head thelittle radiation biology unit,
and I accepted. Of course, I was working there someyears before the machine
was treating patients. I had a small group of associates consisting of Bob
Kallman, whohasjust retired at Stanford, where he becamethe professor of
radiation biology.
BERGE:
How do youspell his last name?