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BERGE:
This is an interview with Dr. Henry Kohn by Anna Berge.
KOHN:
Pronounced like ice cream cone.
BERGE:
With Dr. Henry Kohn by Anna Berge of the Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory Archives and Records Office on the 13th of September, 1994 at his
you got your education.
KOHN:
Instead of going through all that why don't I just hand you this
brief curriculum vitae. (a copy of this is inserted at the end of the interview.)
BERGE:
Okay.
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a little bit on your background, where you were born where, you lived, where
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residence in Berkeley. Okay, Dr. Kohn I was wondering if we could start with
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KOHN:
I was born in NewYork City in
. Went to public schools
there; then to Dartmouth College. And the rest of my career is stated in its
essentials in this curriculum vitae which I havejust given you.
[1. Oak Ridge]
BERGE:
Okay. Can you tell me a little about what interested you in your
particular field to begin with. How yougotinterested in it?
KOHN:
WhenI took my Ph.D. there was a fellow student by the name of
William Arnold. During the war, Arnold worked at Oak Ridge. At the end
of the war, Oak Ridge reorganized the biology division and Arnold became
the Associate Director. They wanted somebodyin the biology laboratory with
a medical background to do work related to medical subjects; Arnold knew .
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