DRAFT
KOHN:
Well I suppose I would say that I was the outstanding
and middle-aged fella who could do
be that bold.
Well,
thoroughly trained.
it.
I don't know.
No,
I won't
I was probably the only one who was
And who also was
in the physical end.
oh
there was the fellow who was the head of the biology division at
the Argon National Laboratory.
There was a fellow by the name of
Austin Breus.
BERGE:
B-R-E-U-S?
KOHN:
Yes,
than I am.
Have you ever heard of him?
He's a little older
I don't know whether he's still alive.
a good friend of
Shields,
Breus who recommended me to Warren.
I think Warren more or less
offered the job first to Henry Kaplan at Stanford,
some remarkable requests,
shall we say,
Then they came down to me.
and he made
which they couldn't meet.
so I
but they didn't offer him quite
the same job that they offered me.
be frank,
I think they had
I never discussed it with Henry,
But I do know,
I
I believe it was
made some inquiries and then offered me the job.
committee and so forth.
he was
and in my work with the AEC and etc.,
knew Breus when I visited the lab and so forth.
don't quite know.
Anyhow,
I was duly examined by a
I don't think there was a great deal,
to
I don't think there was much competition for this job
because it was a job which presumably required some knowledge of
both biology and medicine,
practicing medicine,
so forth.
I think the man who was
they didn't pay him enough money there having
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