PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL RE MOVED BERGE: This is an interview with Dr. Henry Kohn by Anna Berge. KOHN: Pronounced like ice cream cone. BERGE: With Dr. Henry Kohn by Anna Berge of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Archives and Records Office on the 13th of September, 1994 at his you got your education. KOHN: Instead of going through all that why don't I just hand you this brief curriculum vitae. (a copy of this is inserted at the end of the interview.) BERGE: Okay. Sih cASPE GayASaes iRRSaatiSak a little bit on your background, where you were born where, you lived, where Eat residence in Berkeley. Okay, Dr. Kohn I was wondering if we could start with 4 4 4 Ji KOHN: I was born in NewYork City in . Went to public schools there; then to Dartmouth College. And the rest of my career is stated in its essentials in this curriculum vitae which I havejust given you. [1. Oak Ridge] BERGE: Okay. Can you tell me a little about what interested you in your particular field to begin with. How yougotinterested in it? KOHN: WhenI took my Ph.D. there was a fellow student by the name of William Arnold. During the war, Arnold worked at Oak Ridge. At the end of the war, Oak Ridge reorganized the biology division and Arnold became the Associate Director. They wanted somebodyin the biology laboratory with a medical background to do work related to medical subjects; Arnold knew . PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED 3