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KOHN:
When I took my Ph.D.
name of William Arnold.
there was a fellow student by the
And at the end of the war they
reorganized the laboratory,
the biology laboratory at Oak Ridge
and Arnold became the associate Director.
Since they wanted
somebody there in the biology laboratory with a medical background
to do work related to medical subjects,
invited me
two years
to come down.
And I did.
there at Oak Ridge,
I became
he knew me and,
therefore,
And through that,
interested
spending
in radiation
biology.
BERGE:
What kinds of things did you do while you were at Oak
Ridge?
KOHN:
I worked with rats and investigated the changes in the
blood of rats following irradiation.
BERGE:
Anything else you want to say about that time period?
KOHN:
Well,
wanted,
I was then also in the Public Health Service.
having a large ??? experience with man,
I
and so I asked the
Public Health Service if I could work in some medically or
directly oriented service.
in Dr.
Stone's department
And they gave me permission to visit
in San Francisco.
So I went
there and
worked there for several years and then left the Public Health
Service.
Dr.
Stone offered me a job in the radiological