PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL RE MOVED Professor of Radiation Therapy and then Associate Professor of Radiation Therapy. He did no experimental work when he was with kong, but he was interested in it. He ftWemy contracted leukemia and he died while I was there @etumily, And no doubt, (+ his leukemia resulted from his exposure either in England, well during i his career, whenever BERGE: , buck wyoeAt ? 5 Cues ‘ Nan Can you talk a little bit about the exposure of most people who worked with radiation at that time? What was the awareness level of the dangers of exposure? anieenstd. jiiI'tm sitting here, eighty-five years oid. I've been working with radiation since 1947, aad ee colleagues whorl 've known, past and present are all okay. I think we were quite well aware of the dangers of exposure. BERGE: Was _ KOHN: Careless? particularly... No. I don't think so. I don't know when he got his overexposure. aT Lt Sor he was in England. attiee Seae *@6p==sweemapmere, It may have been when Or it may have been when he started out in radiology andbeing trained as a radiologist in Prague. X-rays. They may not have been so careful taking So he was repeatedly exposed albeit to small amounts of PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED 13 ‘