anyone with anytraining could look over these selected papers whichI list in
the C.V. and see the sorts of thing I wasinterested in. I'm usingI, but of
course, my collaborators were equally interested. They showedbetter than I
can in my stuttering way here what went on then. I can give youa listofall
the papersI've published if that's desirable, but I think this selection here I
don't know quite why I wrote this brief curriculum vitae.) tells the story.
Whoever's interested can look this over. If he has any backgroundatall he'll
immediately see what's going on, you can read one of the papers.

BERGE:

Can youtalk a little bit about how you felt about the results that

you got?

KOHN:

I don't understand what you mean.

BERGE:

Do you feel that your years at the radiological lab were

productive in the way that you had hoped they were going to be?

KOHN:

I didn't hope. I just automatically assumed that they would be

productive if I worked hard. And they were. But the thing aboutscienceis
that science moves on. So each chap whois working hopes his work will be
great. While it may be great for the moment, he is more like a brick-layer
building a wall. You lay your bricks, then you drop out. Another fellow
comesand lays some bricks on top of yours and so it goes. Unless you make
somereally important discovery mostscientific work is just part of the bricks
and mortar that go into the general structure, if I make myself clear. While
the work wasokay, I don't think any of it deserves the Nobel Prize.

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