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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,

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his

leukemia resulted from his exposure either in England, well during
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his
career, whenever

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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.
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he was in England. attiee Seae

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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
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