in pathology in the late thirties owning to his interest in cancer. In 1939, he became anofficer in the Navy's medical department, and circa 1942, with Dunlap, Gates, and Friedman, wrote a series of papers summarizing what was known aboutradiation 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 hadestablished 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 J 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. little older than myself, but no longeralive. 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 had first offered the job to Henry Kaplan of Stanford, but he made some remarkable 25