of Radiation Therapy at UC San Francisco. I worked there for several years on
detached duty before I resigned from the Service; Dr. Stone had offered mea
job in the Radiological Laboratory which I accepted. At that time they had
just finished the Radiological Laboratory building which was to house the
synchrotron, a 70 MeV machine. I was to determine the radiobiological
effectiveness (RBE) of its x-ray beam. That's aboutall I can say aboutthat. I
hope your other interviewees talk more than I do.

BERGE:

Some do, some don't. Can you describe, did you only work on

the on the RBE?

KOHN:

No, I had an X-ray machine at mydisposal, and I, therefore, did a

variety of experiments with the X-ray beam on rats, but especially on mice.

BERGE:

What was the advantage of mice overrats?

KOHN:

They're smaller. You could have more of them in the

laboratory.

BERGE:

And what happenedafter you were there for a couple of years

and then left?

KOHN:

Well I wasthere from,let's see, I went to Oak Ridge in 1947.

That's all on that C.V. there, and then I stayed at the Radiological Laboratory
in San Francisco from 1949 to about 1962 or 1963. Well we did a variety of
experiments, and I did some work on patients.

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