LBL Archives and Records Office
Nuclear Testing and Fallout Records Survey
5. eeeenon of Records
. Personal Name(s) Reference
Joseph G. Hamilton.
Unknown until further review.
j. Organizational Name(s) Reference
MED Project 48A
Crocker Laboratory
U.c. Radiation Laboratory
Metallurgical Laboratory.
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
Clinton (Oak Ridge) Laboratory
University of Chicago.
6. Test Data
a. Test Operation
Trinity;
Operation Crossroad. |
b. Location
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Berkeley; Los Alamos; Chicago; Knoxville, TN.
c. Assignment
Project NDP - 48A; Projects Gabriel & Rand.
d. Organizational Responsibilities
Defense Research.
After WWII, Dr. Hamilton's group participated in the.
Bikini tests of 1946 and advised the U.S. Navy on the decontamination of
ships exposed to nuclear explosives.
Hamilton became chair of the Advisory
Committee on Radioactive Warfare, U.S. Army Chemical-Corps. The ‘Crocker Lab
e. Staff Position/Responsibilities
studied the biological effects of fission
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products and radioactive aerosols.
Directed, conducted, and reported on radiological studies of exposed
biological systems under MED/AEC Contract NDP - 48A and National Defense
Research Committee Contracts.
Notes
Attached are photocopies of correspondence concerning the search for
location and transfer of Joseph G. Hamilton's records. Selected
letters found in the John H. Lawrence Papers, Ernest O. Lawrence
Pavers, and Archives and Records accession record.
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