DRAFT
but I wanted to see it created.
lot of political
shenanigans,
To make a long story short,
etc.,
that has
come
anda
to pass and
there now is something called the Joint Center for Radiation
Therapy.
It may be the largest department of radiation therapy in
the United States.
I don't know whether its larger than New York.
But they treat now something like four thousand patients a year.
Certainly more than three thousand.
contribution,
of course,
So I regard that as my chief
actually in this field.
Then the other thing was,
to have a going laboratory of radiological sciences,
and I think I did the right thing there by showing responsibility
on to the individual departments,
rather than trying to establish
a Single unit under my direction.
That's about it.
work on this business at Harvard on the
of the histocompatibility enzyme.
thing,
business of the mutations
In fact that was the chief
the only thing really I worked on there,
Melvold.
and with Dr.
And that sort of finished up that work,
clear that
the contention was
I did more
it became quite
correct that there weren't any
mutations of the histocompatibility enzyme.
Now one of the things
I was interested in, was this have you ever seen this book?
I was a member of
the committee that
Well,
there were about six to seven
people.
BERGE:
The Committee on Nuclear and Alternative Energy Systems?
KOHN:
Yes.
It's a good book because the United States is
running into,
the world not the United States,
short of
to produce electricity,
fuel
19
is going to run
and obviously nuclear energy