Berge: What kinds of things did you do at Gak Ridge? Kohn: I worked with rats and investigated the changes in their blood cw chemistry folling Single doses of x rays. I understand that people subsequently have had difficulty in confirming our results. Berge: Anything else you want to say about that time period? Kohn: When I arrived in 1949,. there was practically no Biology Division Lt but a laboratory building of good size was being renovated for it at Y-10. Dr. Hollaender from the USPHS gwas the director of the division. He spoke with a German accent and was not an impressive person scientifically. However, he ? knew the value of money and he used his position to build up a good lab. But as a person, he was in my opinion, not to be admired. He was amazed when I told him that Gormtaancyee; IT would be fransferre’y I'm sure Ke had planned to surprise me by telling me that Dr. JacobFurtiwould be taking over my quarters and I would be transferred to the garret. Hollaeder hated people with medical training. When I tried to tell Furth on his arrival that he might have trouble with Hollaender, he looked down his nose at me. But some years later, when we met in Boston, he remarked in a somewhat apologetic tone that I had been right. 2. SAN FRANCISCO Kohn: Well I was then in the Public Health Service. I wanted to‘some experience with man, so I asked for permissifton to visit Dr. Stone's division of radiation therapy in San Francisco. me detached years before I resigned from the Service. job in the Radiological Laboratory I worked there there for several Dr. Stone had offered me a (go to next page) page