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IT asked them what elements they could make that were +.
interestingg\nd it turned: oulieue best bet was radioz
phosphorous.
SSH:
Do you remember what year this was?
KGS:
Tt was after "31. ‘ The paper, which was one of the firs:
that came out of the Radiation Laboratory, was publishe:.
But publications took a long rime.
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Now ws the phosphorous study fo chickens that you were
about?
KGS:
Yes, we did the study on the effect of P32 on the white «
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SSH:
Now, who is "we"aaaindiz that again Cook?
KGS:
Well, Cook was in there, in sort of a, fkll he's dead now,
he can't defend himself, but my impression of segthat he
was forever smoking cigarettes.
He had a pile of Saturday
Evening Posts about three feet high, and his memory, rv:
powers, weren't the best.
(n¥he'd ait there and read thes«
dam magazinessyday after day, smoking cigarettes.
SSH:
-You mean in the Yahe would do that?
KGS:
Yes, fn his office.
He had the little corner office on the
‘wight~fiand entrance to the Life Sctences building.
dndhe
a couple of labs there and we had some other general facili
SSH:
So he was reading whilerrcople were getting the ideas and dc
' the work?
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Right.
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KGS?
Who was involved with that phosphorous atudy in chickens?
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