ao in pathologyin the late thirties owfing to his interest in cancer. In 1939, he becameanofficer in the Navy's medical department, and circa 1942, with Dunlap, Gates, and Friedman, wrote a series of papers summarizing what was knownaboutradiation pathology. He wasin the first team to visit Nagasaki and Hiroshimaafter the bombing, and I believe he was the primary instigator of what later turned into the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission. When the AEC wasestablished in 1947, he becamethefirst director of the Division of Biology and Medicine, a post which he held until they could find a permanent appointee. Dr. Warren had established his own Cancer Research Institute at the New England Deaconess Hospital, and looking back uponit now, I suppose he wantedto join to it a laboratory building that would house a high voltage therapy machine and a small research radiobiological laboratory, similar to Dr. Stone's. BERGE: What made him invite you? Do you know? KOHN: Well I suppose I would say that I was the outstanding and middle-aged fellow available. (Smiling) No, I won't be that bold. Oh there was Austin Brues, head of the Biology Division at the Argon National Laboratory. BERGE: B-R-E-U-S? KOHN: No, Brues. A little older than myself, but no longer alive. He was a goodfriend of Warren, and in my work we had frequently met. I believe it was he who recommended me to Warren. I think they hadfirst offered the job to Henry Kaplan of Stanford, but he made some remarkable Yo