KOHN: I didn't hope. I just automatically assumed that they would be productive if I worked hard. {ox And they were. Osag@e thing about science is science moves on. is working hopes his work will be great. for the moment, But the So each chap who While it may be great Hye Like a brick»layer building a wall. lay your bricks, then you drop out. u ow — You my Another fella comes and lays NAY F some bricks on top of Mitandsnemeagecs. Unless you make some really-emmeeey important discovery, most scientific work is #@S8t, ets just part of the bricks and mortar that go into the general structure, if I make myself clear. Chiu While #hi¢ was okay, I don't think any of it deserves the Nobel bri zOpasexeeteriy- BERGE: Can you talk a little bit about what conditions were like to work under during those years? KOHN: Conditions in the early fifties were very good. There was money, and if you workedany reasonably honest, good job, ehpay could get support. That probably isn't true today. I have no complaints whatsoever, I feel I was quite well treated by the Atomic Energy Commission. BERGE: Did you mostly follow your own research, or were you able to choose your topics of research and then proceed or did you follow the program that the AEC had intended? KOHN: I had complete authority.