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a decision had been made to have a number of national laboratories.
Ridge,
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A.E.C. was supporting Oak Rmdm, Brookhaven, Argonne, and then @n a very
much smaller scale, they decided that Dr. Stone should have a high-energy
Whahansmuamee:TAY San Francisco.
Dr. Stone 4&fidne chose the highest energy
gAachine possible with reasonable planning; the General
Electric Co had
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built aw70 MeV synchrotron, and they would build him a second onemgm PUBLARTHTERRI ,
So a special building was constructed to house
ally
the machine behind the main UCSF buildings; it would contain some
laboratory space.
Berge:
Kohn:
Have you seen it?
No.
The Laboratory was completed around 1950-1951.
The synchrotron was
a very large machine; it hadfo be installed, mad to work reliably, and
calibrated. %&@ Dr. Stone asked me if I would head the little
radiation bioJogy unit, and I accepted.
befpre the machine was treating patients.
Of course, I was working some years
I had a small group of associates
consisting of Bob Kallman, who has just retired at Stanford, where he became