when Dr. Stone offered me the job he did make the condition that I / i digs would determine the RBE of the synchrotron, ae dn fact Sasser a brhat Coupebe Feo itl & ef — Ba) ey Gein we knew jester ahi the work on the othermachiHes, K dante before the synchrotron was ready, they WOkd--Be; But other than that all the work was of my own design and choosing, and my junior collaborators were selected by me on Rd,cr the basis that such topics would be congenial to them and they A were technically able to pursue them. BERGE: Can you tell me a little bit about Dr. Stone? How it was working for him, what type of personality he had? KOHN: Dr. Stone, from my point of view, was @ quite #ysenior —— hae FETSoltletnu6e—lave NSet oh ese Eee pr 1950, | I was about forty years old and Dr. Stone I suppose ty was wee Sixty. I don't know exactly. So I rather looked up to him , first, on the basis of age jand then because he was a very well known figure. time. He was a short man, tap gray haired at that He spoke in a gentle, low voice. He was very much of a gentleman, but not a pretentious gentleman. the | t Da. “ilebot “the He was very easy to not have very many conversations, actually. hrotrongoing. They did not have anyone . Dn. tow available to treat the patients. @® wanted to have a ekeuy person assigned to that. patients> 4 Vigepperted’ t A He offered me the job of treating the be a radiation therapist. which I declined because I felt that if I treated the patients and was doing experimental work, it would be intellectually VaR