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Professor of Radiation Therapy and then Associate Professor of
Radiation Therapy.
He did no experimental work when he was with
kong, but he was interested in it.
He ftWemy contracted leukemia
and he died while I was there @etumily,
And no doubt,
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his
leukemia resulted from his exposure either in England, well during
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his
career, whenever
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Can you talk a little bit about the exposure of most
people who worked with radiation at that time?
What was the
awareness level of the dangers of exposure?
anieenstd.
jiiI'tm sitting here,
eighty-five years oid.
I've been
working with radiation since 1947, aad ee colleagues whorl 've
known,
past and present are all okay.
I think we were quite well
aware of the dangers of exposure.
BERGE:
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KOHN:
Careless?
particularly...
No.
I don't think so.
I don't know when he got his overexposure.
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he was in England. attiee Seae
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It may have been when
Or it may have been
when he started out in radiology andbeing trained as a
radiologist in Prague.
X-rays.
They may not have been so careful taking
So he was repeatedly exposed albeit to small amounts of
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