PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED but|again, all credit has been given.to Lawrence. Lawrence apparently really set a number of people back by doing this, such as Hamilton, Gofman, and Pollycove. There was a -certain amount of bitterness and tension. Lawrence was a brilliant thinker, and he had a lot of very interesting ideas, although he neverdid an experimentin his life. Experiments were done by others. One ofhis ideas was, unfortunately, a pituitary irradiation study involvingwomen with breast cancer. It was a failure and resulted in quite a bit of damage. Lawrence's great talent was also in surrounding himself with other brilliant people, but he was never a very good administrator or manager, and he was not goodat getting money when money was not flowingfreely. Aslong as science was well-funded, Donner functioned well, but when Ernest died and when money was notso easy to comeby, Johnlost interest and Donner Lab suffered. worked with the Naval Radiation Defense Laboratory from the 1950's to 1968. He was responsible for analyzing fallout data from various western testsites, including the Marshall Islands. Staff Warren was responsible for using EDTAas a chelating agent on Marshall Islanders exposedto radiation. ‘mostly undertook studies of products, but on a few occasions,he did study radiation effects on humans. He and a numberof his co-workers exposed themselvesto short bursts of directed radiation to study the effects of thermal radiation on humans. He also conducted somecollaborative studies of patients at the Naval Hospital at Oak Knoll (?) or Oakland (7). People to talk to: Hal Anger, Wil Siri, Jack Schooley (here from the 1930's), Myron Pollycove, Earl Hyde (dept. director to Sessler and McMillan, worked with Seaborg). Earl Miller In 1942, Stone was the head of the UCSF equivalent Department of Medical Physics. He was asked by Compton to head upthe safety for the Metallurgical Lab in Chicago, so Earl Miller became the head of the Department. For a time, he was the connection between UCSF and UCB Medical Physics. He was recruited by his good friend Staff Warren to head it up. The work involved 2 1/2 days per week of getting blood _ counts on people, checking up on dosimeter counts,etc. Miller did not wantto do this again after Stone came back. He did notlike being part of a secret project, he didn't like the bureacracy that went along with it, and the constant writing of reports. The secrecy, however, was necessary during this time because it was imperative that the knowledge of the bomb notfall into enemy hands. Physicians and medical specialists had to conduct secret work, because they were using radioisotopes which wererestricted for these reasons (bomb). Just after the interview with Earl Miller, when tapes were put away, he mentioned that he had been to the monthly meetings in Chicago during the Project 48A-C years, with Stone and Seaborg. He appeared to have enjoyed them. Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Archives and Records Office Human Radiation Experiments Search and Retrieval Project Anna Berge's Continuing Research Notes--Oral Histories Electronic Document Title: reviews March 26, 1996 3 ; . PRIVACY ACT MATERIAL REMOVED