DRAFT
but I wanted to see it created.
lot of political

shenanigans,

To make a long story short,

etc.,

that has

come

anda

to pass and

there now is something called the Joint Center for Radiation
Therapy.

It may be the largest department of radiation therapy in

the United States.

I don't know whether its larger than New York.

But they treat now something like four thousand patients a year.
Certainly more than three thousand.
contribution,
of course,

So I regard that as my chief

actually in this field.

Then the other thing was,

to have a going laboratory of radiological sciences,

and I think I did the right thing there by showing responsibility
on to the individual departments,

rather than trying to establish

a Single unit under my direction.

That's about it.

work on this business at Harvard on the
of the histocompatibility enzyme.
thing,

business of the mutations

In fact that was the chief

the only thing really I worked on there,

Melvold.

and with Dr.

And that sort of finished up that work,

clear that

the contention was

I did more

it became quite

correct that there weren't any

mutations of the histocompatibility enzyme.

Now one of the things

I was interested in, was this have you ever seen this book?
I was a member of

the committee that

Well,

there were about six to seven

people.

BERGE:

The Committee on Nuclear and Alternative Energy Systems?

KOHN:

Yes.

It's a good book because the United States is

running into,

the world not the United States,

short of

to produce electricity,

fuel

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is going to run

and obviously nuclear energy

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