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BERKELEY: RADIATION LABORATORY
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June 8, 1948
DR,“JOHN H. LAWRENCE
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. Res Proceedings of the Atomic Energy Commission Washington Meeting of May 25th
* “and 26th,
Undoubtedly many of the minor details of the Proceedings of these meetings
willbe omitted in this summary, I have endeavored to cover the points of major
interest.
* The Atomic morgy Comission Fellowship Programs
“The Atomic Energy Commission admitted that because of the hurried character
of ite embarkation upon its fellowship program the distribution of necessary in«
formation and the formulation of policy regarding the appointments were both in
a “rather bad state, Dr. John Bowersratated that this will be remedied in the
near future with more detailed ciroulars and with better distribution of such
Sireulars,
"Largely. for the purpose of stimulating interést and activity in the over
ail ‘gtoniic energy field, it has been decided to recommend that fellows receive
their training in one of a group of institutions previously not heavily engaged
or not at all engaged in Atomic Energy Commission work, These institutions are
listed in'a circular which the Atomic Energy Commission has issued and which is
appended herewith,
However it is not implied that fellows chosen must decide to
work at these institutions, and, in fact, are to be encouraged to work at any
institution where they may receive an adequate training,
Further it is recognized that many of the individuals coming into this work
with a clinical training in medicine or biologicalsciences may be "rusty" and
deficient in some of the basic disciplines such as elementary college mathematics
and physics. Such individuals will therefore be enoouraged to go back to this
élementary level where necessary in order to obtain a thorough grounding.
Thus
it is not anticipated that the major portion of a year's Fellowship shall be the
completion of a research project.
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The salary level for such fellowships has beenplanned to be roughly equivelent to that of other National Research Council Fellowships. No rigid dates of
olosing have been set and it has been planned to consider new applications several
times per year,
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The Clinical Cancer Research Program of the Atomic Energy Commission:
' The present support by the Atomic Energy Commission for Cancer Research,
as authorized specifically by Congress, is divided among the following activi-
ties, a) Work of the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission, b) distribution of free
radioisotopes for diagnosis and treatment of cancer, c}oancer research projects
to the extent of 350,000 dollars per year at present, and d) the establishment
of clinical cancer research facilities directly under the auspices of the Atomic
Energy Commission, In this last group (i.e, d) the establishment of clinical
cancer research facilities) the Oak Ridge Unit is the first one to be planned
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