DRAFT
Well
I mean you can see,
give them a magic pill,
why that
you can't do anything,
unless you can
which will automatically cure.
is a very important
thing to get
So that is
the numbers.
What's
you're next question?
BERGE:
Next question was,
Harvard by Shields Warren,
you said that you had been brought to
and I was wondering if you could talk a
little bit about him.
KOHN:
You know Shields Warren was,
the AEC at the end,
he was a consultant with
after the war ended,
official job was during the war,
I forget what his
but at the end of the war he
became the director of the division of biology and medicine for
the AEC to help them out.
He really didn't want the job,
did it because they needed somebody.
another man in.
Then they finally got
He was professor of pathology for Harvard Medical
School he was at the New England Deaconess hospital.
think,
but he
Shields,
I
I don't quite know how he got interested in radiation
toxicity.
I think the AEC,
at one point,
asked him about it,
and
he then looked it up and found there wasn't any comprehensive
review,
and he set about to write and wrote in the 40's.
He wrote
a series of papers reviewing what was known about the affects of
radiation toxicity and radiation biology.
primarily interested in cancer,
path.
BERGE:
Then Shields was
and came to radiation through that
I don't know what do you want me to say about him.
What made him invite you?
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Do you know?