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to join to it a laboratory building that would house a high voltage machine
and a small research radiobivlogical laboratory, similar to Dr. Stone's.
Berge:
What made him invite you?
Do you know?
Kohn:
I suppose I was the outstanding middle-aged fellow available
(sm,iling).
No,
I won't be that bold. Oh, there was Austin Brues, head of
the Bioligy Division, Argonne National Laboratory.
Berge:
B-r-e-u-s?
Kohn:
No, B-r-u-e-s. A littleeiider than myself, but no longer alive.
He was a good friend of Warren, and in my work we had frequently met.I believe it
was he who recommended me to Warren.I think they had first offered the job tof
Henry Kaplan of Stanford, but he made some remarkable requests which they did
not meet..
Then they came down to me. The appointment involved a tenured Harvard
professorship as well as the directorship of the Deaconess lab, so I was
examined by a medical s$chool committee, too.
Frankly, I don't think there was
much competition for the job; there were not many who were qualified in medicine
and biology, and who wanted to work for a "non-clinical'salary.
Berge:
What happened to Shields Warren after you moved to Harvard?
Kohn:
He was still at his post at the Deaconess.
But I believe the
project was a great disappointment to him. 1]believeJnow that he had hoped
for a tight connection to his Institute.
But I had made it clear to him - and
everybody else - that I hoped to make the lab a medical school facility and
to establish a copnjoint center for radiation therapy to which it would be
attached.
My acceptagnce involved drawingup anopther sag of plans, moving the