A 4 | Te Pert mer , created. i but I wanted to see it ns, i lot of political shenaniga ngg sto ry short, To make a lon and‘A a a nd Gt that has come to pass ion the Joint Center for Radiat there now is something called Ppy in t of radiati on therap may bé the largest departmen It th Therapyy“ & the United States. —krreaswretth a year. like four thousand patients ye {hey treat 44% something ief & I regard that as my chie thousand. ie lt than three ” in this field. (gr) contribution,acm The other thing# was to create a laboratory of radiological sciences, and I think I did the right thing there by establishing groups for diagnosis for therapy, for ¥ MLA; ¢a, and for my own work in biology. Each group was responsible for itself; they were not under me as a laboratory director. My own experimental work, in re aeDr. Roger Melvold, TBHANMMOOMMAGMOM confirmed that previously done WathDn® 5. th re were not any transmissible x-ray induced mutations in the mouse histocompatibilty system. I should also add that this work led me to have a general interest in genetics work at the Medical School. Harvard at that time did not haye a department devoted to medical genetics. established Instead there was/a loose confederation of workers from several departments in several hos itals ~ ° called the Cengter for Human Genetics, of which I served as the Director een for some years.